Legislators have let Kenyans down

Harry S Truman, the 33rd president of America, once opined that " if we don't have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government, which does not believe in rights for anybody except the state".

No one conversant with our leaders would doubt that moral values are of secondary importance to them.We are saddled with loudmouths and masqueraders to the mantle of leadership who often go off at the mouths without engaging their brains first. The august House is today the theatre of the absurd where dishonourable members of Parliament carry water bottles, guns and pepper sprays to intimidate others.

It is where cowardly men prove they are macho by assaulting women legislators even as the latter prove they are equally vile. While Truman had the benefit of history and its application in leadership; history, and the lessons therein, elude the Kenyan legislator.