Spectre of MPs behaving badly matter of grave concern

A foreigner chancing upon the ruckus coming out of Parliament on Tuesday would have been forgiven for thinking football fans were going for each other's throat after a disagreement over a foul awarded for a hard tackle. The tragedy is that it was not football fans, but our honourable Members of Parliament transacting the day's business in a way they know best - in a pandemonium.

On Tuesday, Devolution Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru appeared before a parliamentary committee, the Departmental Committee on Finance, Trade and Planning to defend herself against the Opposition's claims of fraud as well as shed light on allegations of financial impropriety at the National Youth Service (NYS), which falls under her docket. As anybody conversant with how our divided parliamentarians operate would expect, the probe degenerated into a deplorable shouting match characteristic of Kenya's august House.