Law makers or Investigators?

It is interesting how parliamentary committees have become a crime investigation unit. How competent are the mps to do these kind of sensitive job? Aren't we trending on dangerous grounds as a country to let Mps some of whom have never gone beyond secondary school to do the work of the professional CID unit? Some Mps have been accused of being corrupted by interested parties so that the reports from their work can be favoring a particular angle and this is not the way to go. There may be a mistake or may be a crime was committed during the whole DE LA RUE  saga but the Mps are the wrong guys to do these investigation. I wish the media of which i am a member to ask where the investigative arms of government are. What is the work of the fraud unit? Why do we have the anti corruption unit? Where are the CIDs? and all the others... I think the Mps should only receive reports from these units of government and table these professional reports in parliament and parliament to make laws that will prevent such mistakes from happening. 

 It is also a big mistake to have professionals who have been given their work by Kenyans and especially under the new constitution taken to task  by Mps whose professional background is in question or is not known at all. 

Last week, the commissioner of police was told in the face that he is incompetent by an Mp and yet it is the same Mps who have made it difficult to have them investigated by the police... These laws should be amended and only the Mps can do that. Why should an MP think that he is a know it all just because he was elected to parliament. They should allow professionals to run different sectors for us to achieve the vision 20/30. An MP should listen to an advice from a police officer in terms of security, a teacher in terms of education, an agriculturalist in terms of farming, a Doctor in terms of health etc. It is so weird to have a minister of health who will think he/she can handle health issues yet he/she has no medical or health history.

 Kenyan Mps must rise up to the occasion and  let our country be led and managed by professionals and for the Mps, theirs is to legislate not to interpret or enforce the laws. Thus the need to quicken the full implementation of the new constitution to enable the President hire professionals who will manage our government and professionally drive the country to achieving the vision 20/30.

Can someone tell the minister for trade to tell us why there is a ban in exporting meat to Dubai? Can the minster in charge of foreign affairs tell us how many Kenyans are in deportation jails in Saudi Arabia? Can the Minister in charge of immigration tell us how many Foreigners have acquired land and IDs in Kenya and how? Can the minister of medical services and health tell us how many dialysis machines are there in Kenya and in what condition are they and the cost a Kenyan in Isiolo pays to get that services?

These are the issues Mps should be handling not campaigning and doing investigations.