We have further been informed that Standing Orders do not compel MPs to attend the debates as a precondition for accessing the lucrative sitting allowance. Some MPs in fact just go to Parliament to show their faces, before disappearing and the sitting allowance will be the same as that of the colleague who spent the whole day attending debates. This is not only a raw deal to the electorate who voted such MPs to the House to represent them, but it is also theft of the taxpayers' money and shows a serious lack of commitment to productivity by such legislators and their cabinet counterparts. It also demonstrates that some of our MPs do not respect their electors.
How can men and women, on whom the nation has bestowed so much power and trust, treat us like this? How do they expect the civil service to be productive when they behave worse than school children? Low productivity and poor service delivery are on everyone's lips these days. But sadly, instead of being exemplary by working hard, some of our MPs have joined the army of vocal but unproductive public officers. We want to put it to you that your behaviour reflects poorly on the country's image - lawmakers who can't obey their own laws of the game. What a shame!
