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Kenya's Members of Parliament plan to buy Chinese furniture mean, misguided

The planned Parliamentary Select Commission (PSC) members window-shopping expedition to China to facilitate procurement of office furniture is a waste of taxpayers’ money and ill-informed at a time when the country is grappling with huge unemployment and other economic crises.

 The Government needs to introduce strict measures to curb wastage of public resources. This will help deal with cases such as this whose sole purpose seems to be claiming allowances from an already ailing economy.

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