How Tax Payers’ Money Is ‘Eaten’ By MPs For No Work Done: Testimony From An Insider
An insider who worked at the East African legislative assembly Secretariat narrated to me this touching story. She was almost shedding tears, thinking about how our society has gone to the dogs!
Whenever Member of Parliament have sessions they always have about 10 consecutive days of Parliament sittings. Many times as is the trend in Africa, many MPs do not attend sessions unless there is a controversial issue to talk or vote about. Many only come towards the end of the session only to sign for allowances.
And it should be noted that when MPs attend even 5 or 6 days late, they will demand for all the money for the days they didn't attend, claiming that it had been budgeted for them.
So what the Secretariat did was to make it a policy that all the money for MPs’ 10 days’ sitti...
