By MN Reporter
The Mzalendo Report that recently ranked silent legislators was shallow and unfair, Kuria East MP Marwa Kitayama has said.
The 2020 Parliamentary Scorecard released by Mzalendo Trust showed that Kitayama was among 31 MPs and three senators who were silent.
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He said legislators do a lot of donkey work in committees and plenary at the floor is just meant for talkshow.
“This is a shallow approach to deal only on plenary, the report is unfair and shallow. A plenary is just a talk show which gives a place for people to hear a talk and never covers donkey work done in committees,” he said.
He said he took three years in the ICT Commitee to push through a law on cyber-crime and it was only the chairman who represented the report “to speak on the bill and debates, most of us remain to be silent because we can’t have a plenary talk show in what we already know,.”
He said with over 400 members and chances given to majority and minority leaderships, most MPs find speaking in house unattractive.
“More so, why would I comment on issues of let us say locust invasion in North Eastern which is not bothering my constituents just to appear active? Actually tho who are active in plenary do people on the ground,” he said.
