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‘Mean’ MP shocks residents with his contribution during a fundraising event

How mean can some politicians be? This is the question some residents of a constituency in western Kenya are asking themselves after their MP contributed an amount of money considered to be ‘too little’ at a harambee.

The little known first term MP sent a contribution of Sh10,000 during an event meant to raise funds for a deceased constituent, whose body had been detained at a hospital over a huge bill.

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