Uhuru should not sanction MPs' fresh bid to rip off the taxpayer

Parliament during a past session in June 2019. [File, Standard]

MPs just never get tired of ripping off their constituents. They are on the rampage again. They want you, the taxpayer, to dig deep into your pocket, again, and pay them what they term as night allowance.

For the uninitiated, night allowance is the amount they will be paid for spending a night in Nairobi to attend parliamentary sessions. And sleep for the honourable members does not come cheap. It will cost taxpayers between Sh18,200 and Sh24,000 to give their MPs a good night’s sleep, if President Kenyatta allows the ‘Domestic Subsistence Facilitation’.