Ng’ondi said the lawmakers carry excess visitors, including relatives, to the premises, breaching the rule that allows them to have a maximum of two people at a time.
The rules require that the visitor must be vetted and registered and the purpose of their visit documented for proper accountability.
With the limited spaces and offices, some relatives have been found unattended and lost within the assembly halls or in places they should not access.
“It is also notable that some of you bring more than two visitors into the precincts of the assembly contrary to standing orders and speaker’s rules,” the speaker told the members last Tuesday when delivering communication from the chair.
“Occasionally, the assembly’s orderlies have found these visitors in unregistered offices and areas within the assembly and unattended by the host member.
“It should be noted that members shall only be allowed to bring up to two visitors into the precincts of the assembly and the said member shall be responsible for the orderly conduct of the visitor.”
Also, there is no order on who from the MCAs ward offices can access the assembly. The politicians have printed badges irregularly to the people identifying as staff from the ward offices.
This is in breach of the rules that require that the office of the assembly’s clerk to be the one who issues the authentic budges to the staff of the law makers.
The impact of this has been forgery of the identity documents, enabling anyone to access the offices.
“It has been brought to my attention that some of you are producing badges for ward office staff without adherence to proper channels…this amounts to forgery and it is strongly discouraged and should cease forthwith.”
The badges should be issued by the office of the clerk who is the authorised officer for that matter, he said.
As a remedy, the speaker said, he had directed the clerk to liaise with all the lawmakers to forward the names of the ward staff they want designated as their aides in the assembly so that they are accredited and the issuance of their badges regularised.
Also, the security orderlies at the assembly will only admit the lawmaker visitors through the public entrance where access to the institution can be properly vetted and controlled.
“The clerk is directed to issue a communication to all members requesting for the names of the said staff for issuance of proper and authorised badges,” he said.
“Additionally, such visitors shall be admitted only through the public entrance for proper vetting and issuance of visitor badges to the offices they wish to visit.
“The sergeant-at-arms are hereby directed to enforce this directive and take action in accordance with standing orders and speaker’s rules on access control.”
It is not the first time that the conduct of city legislators come to question.
In October 2019, MCAs in the city assembly staged a protest against then speaker Beatrice Elachi demanding that she vacates office.
The protest turned violent, with anti-riot police using teargas canisters to eject the uncontrollable MCAs from the precincts of the assembly and to restore order.
