Parliamentary committees will play key roles in the new era

By Joe Nyaga

The British parliamentary system or Westminster model that we inherited at independence did not initially have a strong committee system. The main system consisted of Government and Opposition sides in Parliament. In addition, the Opposition got its way through questions to the Prime Minister and the ministers. But as the economies and democracies became more sophisticated, the question time did not provide enough time for Parliament to analyse, in details, what the Executive was doing.