According to a news report several MPs confessed that money had changed hands to facilitate defeat of the sugar report. An MP said some members were given Sh30, 000 while others received Sh20, 000. And another MP said the money was coming from different sources.
[FONT=book antiqua][COLOR=rgb(243, 121, 52)]“Shame! How do you get Sh20,000 yet you earn a million? This is really bad,” said Matayos MP Godfrey Odanga as he jeered two of his colleagues as they rushed out, apparently to collect their share of the money”[/FONT][FONT=trebuchet ms][COLOR=rgb(243, 121, 52)].[/FONT]
These is indeed an immoral cheap House, they don’t need a lot of money to sell millions of Kenyan’s into long-term health problems.
On one side they are demolition illegal structure, while the house is giving a free reign to importers of illegal toxic sugars. Surely, Kenyans can’t stand by as the House guarantee ill health to its children, they should investigate this whole affair and arrest the bribe givers and takers. Those found to be colluding against the children of this country should lose their seats promptly.
Why has parliament taken such a strong interest in the matter, corruption are bribery are a crimes, should the Criminal investigating bureau not be leading on the investigation.
This is very serious, Parliament is turned into a whoredom of corruption.
They have so much money to distribute, gained illegally through improvising 1000s of farmers and destabilising food production.
BRIBERY
The multimillion bribery scheme involving members of Parliament to influence the outcome of the report in which Kenya lost more than Sh10 billion in taxes has come to light.
Parliament rejected the report prepared by a joint committee ostensibly on the grounds that the team ignored its terms of reference and did not take into consideration witness statements.
The Saturday Nation can authoritatively reveal that millions of shillings changed hands as shadowy figures sought to influence the debate so that some top government officials implicated by the report could be let off the hook.
On Thursday morning the Saturday Nation team saw wards of crisp Sh1,000 notes stashed in a blue envelope, which one MP confided contained Sh30,000.
The money had been sent through an emissary by a government official.
He said other people unhappy with the report might have sent their own emissaries.
UNSAFE
Alego Usonga MP Samuel Atandi said that the money was being shared in Parliament from Wednesday evening with the sole aim of ensuring that MPs shot down the sugar report.
He did not say who was dishing out the money. “My conscience could not allow me to take the money,” Mr Atandi said.
SHAME
Yesterday, the MP confirmed that the woman rep (name withheld for legal reasons) had tried to bribe him to vote against the report.
“I was in the company of Sirisia MP John Waluke when she gave me a blue envelope with Sh10,000. I rejected it,” he said.
Matungu MP Makokha Murunga corroborated the claims.
“MPs were compromised. What happened along the corridors of Parliament is shameful.
"I am not afraid to say that the report was rejected on the basis of corruption. It is sad and shameful that some MPs received as little as Sh10, 000 to shoot down the report,” Mr Murunga said.
MPs earn upwards of Sh1 million in salaries and allowances.
Besides the woman rep, four other MPs — all of them from the Rift Valley — were at the centre of mobilising other legislators to receive the suspect handouts.
FARMERS
He also criticised MPs, saying they were part of the scheme to cover up the truth on the availability of toxic sugar in the market.
[COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]“Impoverished cane farmers, ailing sugar factories and millions of sugar consumers in Kenya have been thrown under the bus by none other than their institution of Parliament. Parliament should be investigated for abetting criminality and corruption,” he said.
INQUIRY
Butere MP Tindi Mwale complained that by rejecting the report, MPs had conspired to undermine the economy of sugarcane growing regions.
“The mercury in the sugar has gone into their head that is why they rejected the report,” he said.
Alego Usonga MP Samuel Atandi told the Saturday Nation that money was all over Parliament by Wednesday.