Lilian Achieng Gogo a Kenyan MP for Rangwe constituency in western Kenya is demanding a new law come in to force to stop people letting rip on passenger planes.
She claims that people farting can cause "discomfort and insecurity" among passengers and needs to be stopped.
She also stated that farters are a security threat, because it could led to an outbreak of fights on board. Of course Farting is something of an issue in Kenya. Recently, during a debate about market stalls in Homa Bay county assembly, a member, Julius Gaya, interrupted the proceedings by shouting "Honourable Speaker, one of us has polluted the air and I know who it is!" ... he then pointed at a fellow member of the assembly.
However the member he accused of farting angrily rejected the accusation as baseless. "I am not the one. I cannot do such a thing in front of my colleagues." The assembly's speaker Edwin Kakach apparently hoping to literally clear the air, instructed members to step outside and take a break from the chamber.
He then ordered officials to bring in air fresheners "to make it pleasant. Get whatever flavour you will find in any office, whether it's vanilla or strawberry. We cannot continue sitting in an environment that smells bad." However before this could be done, the smell is said to have subsided before any such sprays were found, allowing the debate to continue.
Meanwhile in Canada, even the use of the word fart can cause a row ..... Conservative MP Michelle Rempel accused the government of treating the province of Alberta "like a fart in the room" over jobs. Green Party leader Elizabeth May instantly objected "I heard her say a word I know is distinctly unparliamentary, and I think she may want to withdraw it. The word was f-a-r-t." spelling it out clearly to avoid repeating the word she was objecting to.
Ms Rempel refused to withdraw it ... "Is my colleague actually serious? I just gave an impassioned speech about Alberta jobs, and that's what the leader of a political party has to say? No, I don't withdraw it." The director of one of Canada's leading journalism schools later tweeted "With all eyes on Trump's destruction of US politics and civil society, a silent but deadly political scandal in Canada"
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| Lilian Achieng Gogo - Anti-Wind Campaigner |
She claims that people farting can cause "discomfort and insecurity" among passengers and needs to be stopped.
She also stated that farters are a security threat, because it could led to an outbreak of fights on board. Of course Farting is something of an issue in Kenya. Recently, during a debate about market stalls in Homa Bay county assembly, a member, Julius Gaya, interrupted the proceedings by shouting "Honourable Speaker, one of us has polluted the air and I know who it is!" ... he then pointed at a fellow member of the assembly.
However the member he accused of farting angrily rejected the accusation as baseless. "I am not the one. I cannot do such a thing in front of my colleagues." The assembly's speaker Edwin Kakach apparently hoping to literally clear the air, instructed members to step outside and take a break from the chamber.
He then ordered officials to bring in air fresheners "to make it pleasant. Get whatever flavour you will find in any office, whether it's vanilla or strawberry. We cannot continue sitting in an environment that smells bad." However before this could be done, the smell is said to have subsided before any such sprays were found, allowing the debate to continue.
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| Soiling The Air Is Anti-Social ..... |
Meanwhile in Canada, even the use of the word fart can cause a row ..... Conservative MP Michelle Rempel accused the government of treating the province of Alberta "like a fart in the room" over jobs. Green Party leader Elizabeth May instantly objected "I heard her say a word I know is distinctly unparliamentary, and I think she may want to withdraw it. The word was f-a-r-t." spelling it out clearly to avoid repeating the word she was objecting to.
Ms Rempel refused to withdraw it ... "Is my colleague actually serious? I just gave an impassioned speech about Alberta jobs, and that's what the leader of a political party has to say? No, I don't withdraw it." The director of one of Canada's leading journalism schools later tweeted "With all eyes on Trump's destruction of US politics and civil society, a silent but deadly political scandal in Canada"
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