Senators now welcome Sh1b shot in the arm for county oversight

Senators have welcomed MPs’ decision to allocate them Sh1 billion in the Budget Policy Statement (BPS) to facilitate their oversight role.

In the past two years, the Senate’s efforts to be allocated money for this role has faced stiff opposition from the National Assembly, whose members control more than Sh30 billion allocated to the Constituency Development Fund (CDF), but whose allocation was recently declared unconstitutional.