Parliament has a duty to serve citizens well

MPs during a parliamentary session. [Courtesy]

Out of a budget of Sh3 trillion, Parliament has, for weeks, been unable to agree on whether to give counties an extra Sh11 billion or not. I may not be a genius in mathematics, but it seems absurd to me that a Parliament that boasts of less than 1,000 employees (including parliamentary staff) easily gobbles up Sh40 billion and then has the temerity to argue whether counties, which have millions of Kenyans each to serve, should each receive a paltry Sh7 billion on average.

We must be mad as a nation to distribute Sh40 billion to Parliament and not realise that county governments are hardly scraping by with Nairobi receiving only Sh14 billion. Which means we assign Sh4,666 to every Nairobian, but assign Sh40 million per head in Parliament. The scales are heavily tipped in favour of waheshimiwa while they pretend to care about us and haggle over Sh11 billion.