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NERIMA: Of MPs behaving badly and the rest of us forgetting we have power to recall

Kenyan Members of the Parliament during a past sitting. Kenyan politicians and parliamentarians behaving badly has become a daily occurrence. PHOTO | JEFF ANGOTE | NMG

By  NERIMA WAKO-OJIWA

Watching news and reading media reports of Kenyan politicians and parliamentarians behaving badly has become a daily occurrence.

That about 80 legislators went on an expensive trip to Nashville, US, when five would have sufficed is no longer shocking. It’s normal.

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