The National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi together with a section of parliamentary committee visited the parliament ladies’ bathrooms in Parliament Buildings to authenticate allegations that some MPs were bribed in there to kill the sugar report.
Speaker Muturi together with MPs of the Powers and Privileges Committee, to carry out the investigations.
While appearing before the committee Kiambu woman representative Ms Gathoni was Wamuchomba said she overheard two of her colleagues discussing how they had been bribed while inside the toilet cubicles.
She further added saying that the said MPs were discussing how they had received between Sh10,000 and Sh20,000 to shoot down the report.
However she indicated that she could not tell who the two MPs were as they were inside the toilet cubicles.
According to Speaker Muturi, “It is important that we get a proper impression of the space described by Ms Wamuchomba.
The sugar report had indicted National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich, his East African Community counterpart Adan Mohammed and High Commissioner to India Willy Bett — who was Agriculture Cabinet Secretary when the sugar was imported.
Parliament rejected the report prepared by a joint committee in August ostensibly on the grounds that the team ignored its terms of reference. Some sugar was suspected to have been toxic or unfit for human consumption as it was not fully processed.
The Privileges Committee has so far grilled 10 MPs, who alleged that their colleagues were bribed to reject the report.
The MPs who have appeared before the committee are Didmas Barasa (Kimilili), James K’Oyoo (Muhoroni), Jane Kihara (Naivasha), Geoffrey Osotsi (Nominated), Simba Arati (Dagoretti North), John Waluke (Sirisia), Wajir Woman Rep Fatuma Gedi, Geoffrey Odanga (Matayos) and Rahab Mukami (Nyeri).