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Your risk being surcharged, MPs warned on absenteeism

National Assembly Clerk Justin Bundi has warned MPs they will be surcharged for wasting taxpayers’ money for failing to show up for meetings locally and internationally.

Bundi expressed displeasure over the worrying trend emerging in Parliament, where Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) books tickets and hotel rooms but the legislators do not turn up or even excuse themselves prior to the meeting date.

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