Reduce foreign trips, Members of County Assemblies advised

Senate Speaker Ekwe Ethuro (right) and Kenya Alliance of Resident Associations Chief Executive Officer Stephen Mutoro during a workshop at a Nairobi hotel. [Photo: Beverlyne Musili/Standard]

Nairobi, Kenya: Senate Speaker Ekwe Ethuro has asked Members of County Assemblies (MCAs) to stop making unnecessary overseas trips.

However, MCAs protested they were being unfairly targeted and demanded to know why MPs, who they claimed were equally globe-trotting, were not being criticised.