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Parliament’s upper house, the Senate, has attracted criticism and ridicule for quite sometimes including the recent proposal by Budget and Appropriation Committee which called for outright abolition of the Upper House.
The Senate was established by the Constitution of Kenya (2010) and was meant to serve various functions which includes; to safeguard the interests of counties and their governments, to participate in the legislation functions of the parliament (examines, deliberates and approves bills concerning counties), to determine the allocation of national revenue among counties and exercise oversight over national revenue allocated to the county governments.
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