12th Parliament most corrupt, but electorate also need to do better

Parliament Buildings, Nairobi. [File, Standard]

Today marked the end of the 12th Parliament, the second in the era of devolution, which was thought would improve the quality of life for Kenyans because of multiple layers of representation, starting at the grassroots.

So many things can be said about the 12th Parliament; unfortunately, most of them are bad, for anecdotal evidence shows that this was probably the most corrupt – in the wider sense of the word – lot of representatives in Kenya’s modern history.