President William Ruto has announced that the government will apprehend and prosecute all leaders, particularly Members of Parliament and Senators, who have been soliciting and receiving bribes to perform their legislative duties.
Speaking on Monday during a joint parliamentary group meeting between the Kenya Kwanza Alliance and the Orange Democratic Movement party, the visibly angry Head of State read the riot act to lawmakers following reports that a majority of them, particularly at the committee level, had been demanding bribes to influence outcomes.
According to Ruto, he receives raw intelligence regularly and is reliably informed that some lawmakers have been consistently taking bribes. "They are collecting money in the name of Parliament, and sometimes that money never gets to Parliament.
Instead, it ends up in the pockets of a few individuals.
