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Threats, blackmail claims in fight over cash-sharing

Senators during a past debate.

A showdown is looming in the Senate on Monday as members who are opposed to a controversial cash-sharing formula for counties maintain a hardline stance on the matter.

Senators allied to President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga, however, are pulling out all the stops to marshal numbers in the Senate to pass the proposed third-generation formula that has seen Speaker Ken Lusaka faulted over his handling of the matter.

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