@Lolest, its the same MPs who have made that a habit. If all of them decided to hold back those handouts, with time people will get used to not getting those handouts. Same case with harambees. They should be participating and giving what they can afford just like the rest of us. I have seen many harambees back in the village where the local MP sends 4k and some of us borrows from friends in Nairobi and takes 100k plus or so. We are slowly getting used to the fact that the MP need not be the one contributing the most. We also contribute to burials, the sick etc but according to our ability. Closer home, Wazuans are educating kids they hardly know, I doubt how many of them asks for salary increments from their employers based on that. Kibaki used to give sparingly in harambees, he was an MP for ages.

If MPs themselves do not stop this habit, it will go on for ages and soon they will be demanding for 2m in salos to enable them do the social works. Kenyans will not say NO to money once its given...but if ALL the givers were to stop doing it, soon it will no longer be an issue. It may take time, but it will eventually work. I heard Millie Odhiambo saying she deserves to be paid well coz she spent millions campaigning. Someone should remind her one of her colleagues in the current parliament campaigned on a bicycle. Boniface Mwangi ran a relatively successful campaign with minimal amount of money raised for him by the public and he convinced 16k people to vote for him(I included). If a significant number decided to change that narrative of giving people money, it can change forever. Maybe they should even be paid much less so that they wont have anything to dish out. Circumstances will then force them not to do it again.

Everyone is O

Its the weak and often empty politicians who result to handouts to win support. We need to clean up our politics and reduce its competitive nature by among others curbing the amount one can spend in campaigns.
Some yrs gone by one needed much less resources to campaign yet those leaders were far more productive than today's.
In the 50+ yrs Kibaki was MP, he never gave cash handouts and so were his peers.

I don't know about his Kibaki but his peers did give lots of handouts

Njenga Karume would have visiting crowds outside his gate at home as early as 6am. He used to live in his constituency. He would tell those MPs who lived in Nairobi how lucky they were. He knew the pain of meeting people with monetary needs almost daily.

aki wazuans, si we are jumping before the drum?

si we wait until class of 8817 mpigs veto the twendi thevetin-twendi aiteen mbajeti until they are paid haki yao and mbaki ndated to 080817 yahwa?

then we can dithkas this storo in real context.

ama namna gani wenzangu?