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As mid-term beckons, MPigs grunt it's their turn to fill up tanks

The National Assembly during a special sitting on January 16, 2025. [File, Standard]

Folks, belated Easter wishes! I left town rather prematurely because I couldn't stand the din generated by politicians over the Constituency Development Fund (CDF), which they claimed hadn't been released on schedule, hampering their work and jeorpardising their prospects for re-election.

That's pretty asinine, if you ask me, for as Raila Odinga aka Baba, the former doyen of opposition now a government insider from outside has been reminding, the work of MPs (who my friend Bonnie Mwangi christened MPigs) is to make laws, not provide social services like school bursaries.

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