Have MPs got nothing better to debate?

Kenya: After a two-week recess, Parliament resumed yesterday and got down to the business of legislation. Before Parliament is a motion by legislator Adan Keynan, dubbed the Order of Precedence Bill. The provisions of this Bill seek to strip governors of the trappings of power associated with high office and criminalise addressing governors as “His Excellency”, and Members of County Assemblies as “honourable” members. The Bill further proposes that transgressors should be fined Sh2 million or sentenced to a jail term not exceeding one year.

At the same time, before the Senate is a Bill seeking to place Members of County Assemblies on the same pedestal with MPs. Members of Parliament are not averse to being addressed as “honourable.” We live in interesting times indeed.