Duale, Muturi and Ethuro in bitter fight for control of PSC billions

Senate Speaker Ekwee Ethuro (left) and his National Assembly counterpart Justine Muturi. [photo:Moses Omusula, Standard]

Just a fortnight before MPs take their final break to join the election campaigns, there’s a bitter fallout in Kenya’s bicameral Parliament between the leadership of the Senate and that of the National Assembly.

On the face, it looks like a resurgence of the supremacy wars that have dogged the 11th Parliament, but the undercurrents point to Machiavellian moves to neuter the Senate and its Clerk, and shore up the powers of the National Assembly.