Senators blame National Assembly colleagues for youth protests crisis

Senate Speaker Amason Kingi addresses a past session of the House. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

The rivalry between the Senate and National Assembly reared its head as Senators contributing for the second day on the motion on the State of the Nation accused their colleagues for failing to rise to occasion when required to.

Senators also told off those who are calling for scrapping of the Senate as part of austerity measures saying, unlike their National Assembly colleagues, they have stood to be counted and should in future have an input crucial issues like the Finance Bill.