After lock-up nightmare, MPs want toilets with running water in cells

From Left: MPs Timothy Bosire (Kitutu Masaba), Kimani Ngunjiri (Bahati), Johnstone Muthama (Machakos Senator), Ferdinand Waititu (Kabete) and Moses Kuria (Gatundu South) at the Milimani Law Courts to answer to hate speech charges. [PHOTO: GEORGE NJUNGE/STANDARD]

NAIROBI: If there’s one thing that knocked the airs out of the MPs in their three-day detention, it was the humiliation of squatting over a bucket and, in the full glare of their colleagues, taking a long call.

After that, they would clean up and when the cell door clanked open, one of them carried the bucket to empty the excrement in the pit latrine outside.