Kenya’s Anti-corruption commission has sued seven former and current Members of Parliament over graft allegations.

Among them is a Cabinet minister and an assistant minister. They are said to have taken illegal allowances amounting to 20.3 million shillings. The anti-graft watchdog is demanding Shs 5.6 million from defense assistant minister and 700,000 shillings from information minister among others.

These are the same people who refused recently to pay taxes citing the law which exempts them from doing so. In the front line was Parliament’s speaker who vomited in our shows when he proudly went on air saying that “if any MP feels sufficiently philanthropic, then he/she should go ahead and pay taxes.”

This has become a topic in every Kenyan’s lips since even the most poorly paid person has to pay taxes and with the fat cheques that our MPs get at every end month regardless of how many times they sat in the national assembly, they still do not figure out why they should be taxed.

Now KACC is talking of suing expert thieves who shamelessly justify their qualms without batting an eye lid quoting and reciting laws that themselves made. How I wish I would be an MP for only a day.
KACC says they received the allowances with the full knowledge that they were illegal. It claims they improperly used their offices and wrongfully acquired public property.

In Nairobi, we talk of armed robbery which has actually turned to be a norm, but we in most cases forget of our own leaders who have perfected the vice since if they are not busy in parliament stealing from us they are forcing us to accept laws which they will later use against us.

Can anyone imagine of a world without politics? I wonder how it would be.