Just when you thought you had seen it all, our hardworking august House tenants have pulled another surprise.
Who knew the class differences among our wahesh, each classified based on how deep their pocket is?
On one end, the new money category yawns - newly elected wahesh who will soon need longer belts. Most of those in this class ended up in Bunge through a populist wave or sympathy votes.
On the other, sleeps the old money crop - long-serving MPs who meet their constituents every five years with the slogan "It's me again". This type comprises wahesh, who probably inherited their seat from a parent, sibling or spouse. Those who keep 'it's in the family. Most of them later attended some benchmarking gig in Zimbabwe, learning how to cling to power from the late Robert Mugabe.
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Bunge contains people from all kinds of backgrounds; humble, arrogant and so forth. But in the end, one would imagine that those at the back would eventually catch up. After all, all the wahesh get an equal chance to break Wanjiku's back, which keeps them heavily salaried every month. Wrong.
As Tuesday's sitting revealed, the class divide persists even in the house of honourable members, where some wahesh are more equal than others. And we all got to know this courtesy of the man a third of Bunge insists must go - Wafula Chebukati.
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission should develop regulations on campaign financing a year before the election.
On Monday, exactly a year to the 2022 contest, the elections' referee sought to limit the generosity of our wahesh during the looming campaign season. And you guessed it right. The minority stood by the electoral agency boss, even as the majority almost shouted: "Chebukati must go!"
Nominee 001, Dave ole Sankok, was one of those in the minority. His explanation for supporting Chebukati was that too much generosity would disadvantage "hustlers" who are too broke to buy support. Capping campaign expenditure, he would argue, would put everyone on an equal footing.
The other side, led by minority whip Junet Mohamed, insisted that they did not mind being told how much of their money they could spend. The wahesh's only problem was that Chebukati was telling them so "too late in the day", code for when they had already made their budget.
In there are the rich, like former majority leader Aden Duale, who explained to Chebukati that "the train had left the station". Then the very rich like Mathare MP Tony Oluoch, who said that "the plane had taken off".
But above them sits the super-rich league of Kiminini's Chris Wamalwa.
"The airport has taken off," blurted Wamalwa.
