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Why County Senate must be involved in enactment of Revenue Bill

By Kindiki Kithure

NAIROBI, KENYA: On Thursday the 6th June 2013, an unacceptable event took place in the National Assembly that is likely to spell doom to the role of the Senate as the watchdog over devolution. The National Assembly unilaterally and quite contemptuously ignored the recommendations of the Senate to upscale the amount allocated to the counties by the national government from the Sh210 billion allocated earlier by the National Assembly to Sh248 billion.

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