The directive of the Senate Committee follows a petition by Laban Omusundi, an activist based at the Senate, concerning the matter of branding public projects and county vehicles with images of Governors and Members of County Assembly.
According to the petitioner, all County-funded projects across all 47 Counties are adorned with portraits, images and names of Governors and Members of County Assemblies, as if the projects were funded by them and not taxpayers.
Omusundi argues that these political elites in the Counties have been allowed to massage their political egos and use spaces of public-funded projects to advertise and brand themselves for personal political course without checks and balances.
"Article 231 (4) of the Constitution disallows the portrait of any individual on the currency. Why should politicians be allowed to brand taxpayers' funded projects with their respective portraits, images, or names?" said Omusundi.
The petitioner told the Senate that it was high time to reject this self-aggrandizement by using taxpayers' funds to brand political elites' portraits, images, or names to perpetuate personal political egos contrary to Article 75(1) of the Constitution of Kenya.