Kenya: Stay true to your job, MPs tell senators

Members of the National Assembly relaunched on Tuesday their fight for supremacy with Senators, accusing them of investigating matters that fall outside their jurisdiction as provided by the Constitution

. Senate inquiries into the saga of Ruaraka lands, Solai Dam tragedy, Kenya Airways probe and several others

Led by Majority Leader in the National Assembly Aden Duale, MPs asked to their counterparts in the Senate to oversee counties and leave money bills in the National Assembly as provided in the Constitution.

"I wish to remove the items in the order that pertains to Senate bills." The Power to Establish Money Bills in Section 109 ", said Duale.

They described the senators as "idle" who only reproduce the work done by the committees of the National Assembly. 9659007] STARTING AN INVESTIGATION

Suna East MP, Junet Mohammed, complains that the National Assembly has introduced in the Senate a number of bills relating to the counties, but that it does not include a single bill. they did not even act accordingly

. House that has no role and who has become thuggish. They have formed committees that do not have work to do. We must give them meaning, they must know where begins and where their jurisdiction ends, "said Mr. Junet.

" We see senators calling the same ministers, the same principal secretaries that the National Assembly calls very soon we will do it.

Kimani Ichungwa, MP for Kikuyu, said that there was a lot of theft of public funds in the counties and that senators were not doing anything about it

STALLED PROJECTS

. ] "There are a lot of projects stuck in the counties that no one has dared to investigate." Senators are just very busy pursuing scandals like Kenya Power and Lighting Company, Ruaraka Land and the Kenya Pipeline Company which they We have no mandate, I think these people are just idle Mr. President, "he adds

Mr. Ichungwa asks what happens when two committees present two reports with different recommendations

The Senate Public Accounts Committee seeks compensation for the lands occupied by Ruaraka High School. and Drive Inn Elementary School since 1984 and 1987.

The National Assembly deals with the same issue