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Revealed: MPs who are mute in Parliament but vocal in public meetings

Members of Young Parliamentarians Association, led by their chairman, Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja, in Mombasa on Saturday. There are concerns many MPs do not participate in making laws. [Omondi Onyango, Standard]

More than 50 MPs are yet to make their maiden speeches in the National Assembly nine months after their election.

According to Mzalendo.com, an online platform that keeps tabs on the performance of MPs in the House plenary, those who have spoken only supported their colleagues but never initiated anything on their own. 

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