MPs UNITED IN THEIR IMPUNITY IN DEBAUCHERY.

This week the public’s disillusionment intensified when forty members of parliament united in their impunity in debauchery engaged for the umpteenth time in deceitfulness and suavity to further deprive the tax payer of gargantuan sums of money. Yet their action was, to say the least unsurprising. This is because over time the morals of MPs have been ruined by the temptations of the wicked demon “avarice.”

Apparently this demon has had a numbing and lethargic effect on the MPs` intellect. In their estimation, parliament is a place where they can fulfill all their fondest dreams, petty desires and end all the frustrations they have built up over the years. In order to attain their ignoble goals, they have incessantly come up with convoluted plots against the lowly tax payer whom they perceive to be nothing more than a plaything or a pet instead of a human being with feelings and intellect. It does not matter to them that the same tax payer they seek to deprive withstands a donkey years to meet their already inflated perks.

One would have expected these MPs to acknowledge the constraints of our struggling economy and consequently propose a fundamental redirection of national economic priorities. It was the public`s expectation that they would work towards meeting rising demands regarding social welfare and the quality of life and to greatly increase expenditures in such neglected areas as education, agriculture, health services, public housing and additional efforts toward environmental protection. We expected them to address the so many hungers bedeviling civil servants and teachers among other government functionaries.

But that was not to be. Instead of triggering fundamental rethinking of sound fiscal management and how best to solve the intractable problem of de-motivation among civil servants in the country, the legislators united in avarice, embraced the thoughtlessness of a great princess Marie Antoinette, who, on being informed that, the country people had no bread, replied, 'Let them eat cake.' Like this thoughtless princess, our legislators have become anaesthetized to the suffering of the masses. They have used legislative fiat to wring every drop of blood from the tax payer. They have continually made themselves more unpopular courtesy of their devotion to their extravagance. Their gargantuan appetite has been the single most cause of the country`s financial problems.

The only thing that matters to our legislators is that teachers and other civil servants are grossly underpaid so that scads of money can be channeled towards pampering legislators with huge perks. Lest they forget, their action will engender intense industrial actions from such groups as teachers, civil servants and the armed forces. Kudos honorable Uhuru Kenyatta for refusing to join in their communion. You have managed to show these MPs that true leadership is tempered with complete objectivity and integrity.

TOME FRANCIS,
BUMULA.
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