OPINION: After the drama in Parliament, we must resume war on graft

Some may, however, argue that, based on the nature of our democracy, the whole episode was a calculated waste of time. Our parliamentary democracy presupposes that once the leader of the Majority party in parliament and his minority counterpart hold the same views and position on a matter before the House, it is as good as settled. That is the theory.

The practice, however, is that the leaders of the majority and minority sides in Parliament- both houses- do not hold any positions on any matter. They simply convey the positions of their party owners who, in most part, are not members of the houses. And to be fair to the leaders in the Houses, it will be unrealistic to expect them to hold any contrary ideas when their positions in the house are a direct function of the party owners.