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Kenya’s MPs seek total immunity from prosecution

Members of the National Assembly yesterday overwhelmingly backed an amendment to the Constitution to shield them and their colleagues in the county assemblies from prosecutions for "anything done... in good faith" as they go about their work.

Even when they leave the Legislature, they say, their sins should not follow them in their retirement.

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