NGUGI: Kenya's Senate has failed in its oversight role; It is a needless burden on taxpayers
Kenya's Senate Majority leader Kipchumba Murkomen and other senators address the media during press briefing in Parliament on September 5, 2019. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
How do you act as an attorney for persons over whom you have oversight responsibilities? One day you are grilling them over misappropriation of public funds. The next day you are defending them in court over accusations of theft of the same funds.
If this is not an obvious case of conflict of interest, then Kenya's Senate and National Assembly should redefine the concept to fit our increasingly strange country where we normalise the abnormal, sanitise criminal behaviour, lay hands on and bless tribal demagogues, elect thieves, and repackage poisonous foods for public consumption.
