Breaking news: Kenyan politicians addicted to alcohol and drugs

In May 2015, a drunk man walked dangerously from a pub along Koinange Street at 2am, holding on to parked cars to aid his movement. He fell down at the junction of  Koinange Street and Kenyatta Avenue, earning a nasty bruise on the forehead. Behind him were two ‘friends’ who were equally drunk. Oblivious of the night traffic, the man doggedly fought on, at times standing still to address an imaginary rally in his mother tongue for a few minutes before continuing with his journey.

He passed Cardinal Otunga Plaza and at the corner, he tried getting into the Intercontinental Hotel but the guards would not let him in. Spewing abuses in his mother tongue, he wobbled, walking in the middle of the street until he reached Parliament Road. He staggered to the gates of Parliament, unzipped his trousers and started urinating on the metallic gates of the August House. The reaction from the police officers guarding the buildings was swift. Guns were cocked, the gate opened swiftly and the urinating man dealt a blow that left him lying on the tarmac, gasping for breath. An officer went after him but was stopped in his tracks by revelations by the fallen man’s friends that the drunkard, who was now whimpering on the ground, was a Member of Parliament.