When I was growing up in the early eighties, I held great veneration for our legislators. As pupils, it was everybody's dream to join the honourables of the day in the august House. I vividly remember learning in Grade Five that Parliament is the third arm of the Government mandated to make laws of the country. It would be a bonus for us, if any question about parliament came up in our termly exams. Those were the days when we still had honourable Members of Parliament.
I am not sure if I still have the same regard for today's legislators. Unless my dictionary misleads me, an honourable person is one who is respectable, admirable, praiseworthy, principled, morally upright and good. I am not certain if our current crop of legislators is honourable. So many nasty things have been reported about the MPs which make the tag honourable a misnomer.
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