Hail our roving members of county assemblies

By Mugambi Nandi
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Charles Dickens, in his book David Copperfield, mentions an old lady who expressed her indignation at the impiety of mariners and others, who had the presumption to go “meandering” around the world. We had forgotten this story until we read reports of the leisurely gallivanting overseas by Members of County Assemblies. We were pleasantly surprised to learn that the people’s representatives had returned to work. We last heard of them when they went on strike to protest the wide gap between their pay and that of their peers — Senators and Members of Parliament. Having put the small matter of salaries and allowances behind them, the MCAs turned peripatetic. (We suspect that the matter of remuneration was amicably and profitably settled quietly behind the scenes, to the merry satisfaction of the MCAs, and at great inconvenience to the taxpayer.)