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County Assemblies accuse Senate of ditching them

“Ceilings are vital but they should be relevant. We cannot have ceilings that leave you unable to conduct your oversight role and even employ staff hence crippling your activities and in the end killing devolution,” said Murang’a County Speaker Leonard Nduati.

“(Billow) Kerrow has moved a bill to adopt the ceilings proposed by CRA, now we are left with lobbying our individual Senators to increase the ceilings, is that what we deserved?” posed Nuh Abdi (Tana River).

During his address, Chairman of the Speakers Forum Abdi urged the Senate to come up with a forum which will act as a linkage between the two to ensure the issues that are being addressed now are dealt with before blow up.

“There has to be adequate funding before oversight, we cannot do our jobs, if we form this Forum it will be very effective in dealing with some of these issues,” said Abdi.

The Speakers also urged the Senate to hold sessions with the County Assemblies to build capacity saying some committees barely knew what their work entailed.

They also urged the Senate to come up with a law to protect them from the ‘jaws’ of impeachment saying MCAs were threatening them with impeachment motions.

“For us to function properly, can you protect us, can you ensure our position is anchored in law so that they don’t call us mark timers,” said Abdi.

Nominated Senator Elizabeth Ongoro supported the proposal to form a liaison committee between the County Assembly and the Senate but however urged the assemblies to in the meantime ‘mend fences’ with the Senators as some had made negative statements against them.

“Some of the counties have insubordinated the Senators so that instead of the Senators defending them, they sit and watch them burn,” Ongoro said.

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