Kenya: Disband Parliament If MPs Won't Serve Us

opinion

One week can be a long time in politics. In the Kenyan situation, that one week can be even longer because many things can change over that time.

Nine days since Senator Mutula Kilonzo died, the people of Kenya have shifted gear. Cabinet nominations and their attendant vetting process have been relegated to the back burner. Nobody talks about anything else except to speculate how the Senator died. What has been competing for news with Mutula's death have been the wrangles over parliamentary committees between the ruling Jubilee Coalition and the Minority CORD coalition and of course the MPs baying for the blood of the Chairman of the Salaries Remuneration Commission for slashing their salaries from Sh840,000 to Sh530,000 per month.

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