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As we came to the end of 2021, members of parliament treated Kenyans to a spectacle of lunacy, buffoonery and idiocy. During the discussion of the Political Parties Amendment Bill No. 58 of 2021, they punched each other, threw water bottlers (bought by taxpayers), heckled and turned the August House into a tower of babel.
They repeated the same in their sitting of January 5 this year. In fact; one would be tempted to think that the prerequisite to being elected is truancy and having served in one's school’s cheering squad. So, why do politicians say and do stupid things?
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