It's time to enact in law rules on presentation of Bills to end Houses tiff

This week we were treated to an unfortunate twit-storm between two top Jubilee leaders. Senate Majority Leader Kipchumba Murkomen went hammer and tongs against his opposite number in the National Assembly Aden Duale. According to Murkomen, he had been shocked that morning to discover, at no place lesser than the House of the Hill, that he was going to be party to the signing by the President of a Bill which, in his view, had been passed unconstitutionally. The issue of contention is not a new controversy.

Our Constitution, recognising that there would be contestation between the two Houses of Parliament on their jurisdictional boundaries, had made several provisions to resolve any arising conflicts. The Constitution, in the first instance, granted different mandates to both Houses.