Active rest duty. (Ear to the Ground).

Kenya is due to go to the polls in presidential elections in the coming year. Plans were put in place, last May, to televise all parliamentary sessions and President's Question Time. The wheels came off the idea when KBC, the national broadcaster, refused to screen the sessions as they would not make good viewing. As in other countries, many MPs doze during the debates. An indignant government spokesman responded that `Kenyan MPs do not sleep or doze in parliament, they do however take part in active rest'. The idea has since been moth-balled.