A thinking Senior Common Room and the unthinking Parliament

By Khamati Shilabukha

During the debate on the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 2012, Isaac Rutto was opposed to the requirement that parliamentary aspirants should have a university degree. That was fine until he argued, rather shallowly, that this would turn Parliament into another Senior Common Room (a Private Members’ Club at the University of Nairobi).