Senate vows court action over bills

Kenya: President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto are staring at a governance crisis as the Senate threatens to move to the Supreme Court and have 67 laws the Head of State approved declared unconstitutional.

And as a pointer that the conflict between the National Assembly and Senate has reached crisis levels, a Jubilee-allied senator claimed it had the potential to "kill a government". The senators yesterday unanimously backed a resolution to hire lawyers to go to the highest court in the country – for the second time in 18 months - to contest the legality of laws they say President Kenyatta assented to without its input.