Molo residents have come out in solidarity to strongly condemn the nomination of eight hundred MCAs in Kenya’s forty seven county assemblies.
The residents say they do not understand their roles.
“Kenya is a growing economy; we do not need all these MCAs. What is their work? We should reduce them to a hundred. Let that money be used to stock medicines in our hospitals and also pay the health workers who are always on strike due to poor pay,” said Joseph Kimani.
Teresia Njoki, another resident however has a different opinion on the same.
“I do not even understand how the nominations are done. The nominated are able bodied people and if they were disabled we would understand. They should be done away with completely. I do not know which and whom interests they represent. They’re just fattening the country’s wage bill,” says Njoki.
Another one thinks they are just there to burden the government with unnecessary demands.
“What can be attributed to the nominated MCAs apart from joining hands with their elected colleagues to demand for pay hikes with others even going to an extent of asking the government to pay their spouses for no work done? Here in Nakuru I have never seen them and I do not even know them,” says John Otieno, a welder in the area.
“If the elected MCAs are doing very little on the ground, what of these nominated ones who are not even directly answerable to the electorate? Let them go home and let the money be spent on development,”, said Lydia Njeri, a shopkeeper.
Wanjiru, a primary school teacher promises that should the scrapping of nominated MCAs be one of the referendum questions, she will be for it.