With only 2 Months to ago and with all signs that most of the Mps will not make it to Parliament, KK online News has exclusively learnt that more than 100 MPs have borrowed more than Sh 4 billion.
According to an Member of Parliament who spoke to KK online News, whenever the Mps want loan it's the Government that is usually the guarantor meaning that Tax man's money may be used to settle these loans in case the 'greedy' Mps will not find their way into National Assembly.
According to a damning report from Ethics and Anti Corruption of 2015 it showed that records that covered mortgages and car loans for lawmakers in current and former Parliaments were missing.
This was the most shocking revelation of financial problems and mismanagement at the Parliamentary Service Commission which is supposed to safeguard such important files.
The files included payment of salaries to retired lawmakers and payment of sitting and mileage allowances to lawmakers who did not attend meetings or travel to constituencies but had been claimed payments.
As at now 170 MPs and PSC staff who took car loans, only 120 log books were available in debtors' records. In 2015 165 Members of Parliament had took loans.
In 2015, Only 615 of 650s could be accounted for and 35 title deeds had not been given to the PSC for safe keeping, as required by regulations on mortgages for Parliament members and staff.
This is just but a tip of an iceberg, the Mps who are supposed to safeguard the interests of their Constituents, have come out to be Tumbocrats. A insider in the Parliament has disclosed to KK online News that majority of the committee members have been signing sitting allowances for other members during committee meetings. The falsified lists are used to compute allowances.
MPs regularly claim travel allowances to their constituencies every weekend, when travels cannot be confirmed. In some cases, MPs claim constituency travel allowances when then are travelling outside the country, collecting other allowances.
The most sad part of the story is that when Kenyans are languishing with poverty, the Tumbocrats are bragging, campaigning with fuel gazers in the villages seeking their reelection bid.
This means that Kenyan tax payers will have to pay for their 'extravagant' expenses even if they will not make it to Parliament.
In Muranga for example,chances are 95% that Gatanga Mp Humfrey Njoroge, Maragua Mp Peter Kamande, Kigumo Mp Jamleck Kamau, Kangema Mp Tirus Ngahu and Mathioya Mp Clement Wambugu will not be August house and if they borrowed, well we will pay on their behalf.
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