A Kenyan female MP, Fatuma Gedi was recently suspended from parliament for a day for distributing sweets to other members during an active session.
Gedi was accused of handing out money as bribe by another MP, Ndindi Nyoro.
Nyoro said “This is an honorable house and we make our decisions based on persuasion and conviction… We cannot have bribery happening in this house”.
It was stated that Gedi later rose on a point of order to clarify that she was handing out sweets, telling the speaker: “the sugar levels of the honorable members have gone down.”
Local reports said while she was suspended for the remainder of the day for breaking house rules on conduct by distributing foodstuff in parliament, Nyoro was later suspended for two days by speaker Soipan Tuya, who called the claim of bribery misleading.
“Hon Nyoro, based on the standing orders 107 having misled the house. I order Hon Nyoro be removed from precincts of parliament for two days,” temporary speaker Soipan Tuya ruled.
