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Do you support proposal to give National Assembly more powers than Senate?

Former Prime minister Raila Odinga makes his speech in presence of President Uhuru Kenyatta during the official launch of the Building Bridges to a United Kenya Taskforce Report at the Bomas of Kenya in Nairobi on October 26, 2020. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

I consider concerns about the National Assembly being more powerful than the   Senate as too much hullabaloo about nothing. I do not understand why some people view the BBI proposal that denies the Senate an opportunity to provide oversight to counties as downgrading it.

This is if you consider that the Constitution has given the National Assembly the mandate to budget. Some of the proposals that I have a problem with are moving Women Reps to the Senate and denying Persons Living with Disabilities a nomination slot in the National Assembly.

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