President William Ruto has revealed that Parliamentary committees demand bribes to write favourable reports and look the other way when grilling members of the national and county governments Speaking at the opening of the National Devolution Conference on Wednesday, August 13, Ruto blasted Parliament over the asking for the bribes, asserting that the Legislature needed to be held to account.
Ruto was responding to sentiments made by Senate Speaker Amason Kingi, who had called for governors and their county governments to be held to account over their dealings. "While I agree with the sentiments expressed by the Speaker of the Senate, and he has made a solid statement on holding governors and county governments to account, the Legislature must also be held to account," he stated. "Something is going on in our Legislature that we must call out.
There is money being demanded, from the Executive (governors and ministers), especially those who appear before our Houses of Parliament.
It is not possible that committees of Parliament demand to be bribed, demand to be paid for them to write reports or look the other way for what is happening in either the national or county governments," Ruto exposed.
