On a serious note though, the closest most MPs can get to the institutions the man has worked for is watching them on TV.

In fact, a far more logical argument could be made that married folks and those with kids are more likely to be irresponsibly corrupt due to their efforts to keep up with the Joneses. Ndio wenye wameleta shida zote ziko Kenya leo.

Botswana, probably the best run country in all of Africa, has a bachelor as president.

Sadly, I see this kind of marital status idiocy coming up whenever anything small happens involving the CBK. If Kenya Shilling touches 100, expect to see even the guy's lack of kitambi heavily interrogated.

Anyway, as Tanzanians would say, tufanye nini na miafrika ndivyo ilivyo.

meanwhile, for all the Huddahs & Veras and wannabe sosholites:

I think we are confusing vetting with interviewing - are mpigs supposed to technically interview the nominees.
I thought their role is to dig up any dirt a nominee has, we wre becoming more liberal kuliko even our liberalism teachers huko majuu - I mean a guy would not even dare run for the most powerful position in the world if he did not have a family.

Even Botswana's president Ian Khama is single and his country is doing very well.

I thought china was the world power