Kenyan MPs cut Senate, SRC and Judiciary budgets to fund counties

Budget and Appropriations Committee chairman Mutava Musyimi

NAIROBI: Members of the National Assembly Wednesday made good their threat to punish the Senate, the Judiciary and the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) when they slashed their budgets and channelled additional cash to the counties.

In a humiliating climb-down from their belligerent vow to ignore the Senate, the MPs were unanimous in approving Sh286.9 billion for the counties under the compromise version of the Division of Revenue Bill 2015; but with that, they said they had to "punish" everyone who had put the National Assembly in a corner.