Lawmakers' work is to legislate, oversight and represent, period!

The National Assembly during a past session. [File, Standard]

When Kenyans bequeathed themselves a new Constitution in 2010, the country sought to cut links with patronage that had plagued its body politic for almost half a century.

With the concentration of power and resources at the centre, development and social services had effectively become tools of campaign, vote-buying and blackmail. That the extent and magnitude of resource allocation was heavily influenced by political benevolence, especially of the presidency, was a gaping drawback.