PREMIUM Nelson Amenya: Kenya’s prosperity tied to independence Parliament If MPs insist on serving as errand boys and girls, Kenyans must start treating them as a criminal cartel. Our Columnists Just now

Kenya’s destiny runs on a wheel, like a hamster in a cage that mistakes speed for distance, and every revolution of that wheel is paid for in Parliament, where power delegated by the people is auctioned to the highest bidder.

Budgets written with public interest, oversight with teeth and laws drafted for citizens instead of bidders all require a House willing to stand up to the Executive.

As long as that willingness can be purchased or disciplined out of its members, our ambitions remain a non-starter, because the building through which they must pass has been rented out.