Muturi team told MPs were bribed in toilets

National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi (centre), who is also the Powers and Privileges committee chairman, with committee members Peter Mwathi (left) and Vincent Tuwei at Parliament Buildings yesterday. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

Members of Parliament received as little as Sh10,000 in the toilets to shoot down a controversial sugar report, a House committee was told yesterday.

Other legislators were handed bribes in Parliament’s new restaurant and car park ahead of the chaotic afternoon session that saw the report on the sugar scandal, which was prepared by members of a joint Agriculture and Trade committee, defeated on the floor of the House.