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AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko and Speaker Beatrice Elachi (pictured)<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0have disagreed on how a Sh15 billion county supplementary budget should be implemented.<\/p>\n

During a special sitting on Thursday last week, Ms Elechi rejected Sonko’s directive that a Bill allocating Sh15 billion to the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) be amended.\u00a0She vetoed Sonko’s memorandum on the Supplementary Appropriations Bill 2020 and returned it to him for assent.<\/p>\n

Elachi also failed to communicate the recent changes made by Jubilee Party that saw the reinstatement of Majority Leader Abdi Guyo and Deputy Whip Waithera Chege to SonkoThe assembly had approved the Supplementary Bill 2020 on April 2 and sent it to Sonko for assent.\u00a0The governor, however, rejected the draft bill on Wednesday, accusing MCAs of allocating funds to functions not transferred to the NMS.<\/p>\n

He sent the Bill back to the House, asking that it be amended.Elachi, in her response however set aside the memorandum, declining to commit it to the committee of the whole assembly as required by the law.<\/p>\n

She said that her ruling was informed by the urgency of the Bill presented during the Covid-19 pandemic. The governor now has seven days to assent to the Bill.\u00a0\u00a0Elachi termed the governor’s arguments as ‘fatally flawed’, noting that the Bill originated from the Executive and was considered by the Select Committee on Budget and Appropriation, in accordance with assembly practices.<\/p>\n

County Assembly\u00a0Budget, Finance and Appropriation committee chairman\u00a0Robert Mbatia has however faulted Elachi’s\u00a0actions saying she did not follow the law.\u00a0Mbatia said that the budget Committee did not receive any copy of the memorandum before Elachi made the ruling on Thursday as required by law.<\/p>\n

According to the County\u00a0Assembly Standing Orders, the governor\u2019s memorandum should be committed to the relevant committee for consideration and the clerk mandated to circulate copies to the committee members.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe never saw the governor\u2019s memorandum. We all received a text in the morning calling us for a special sitting,” said Mr Mbatia.\u00a0\u00a0Elachi, however, said she used the precedent set by former Speaker Alex Magelo in a ruling delivered on May 17 2017, in which he overruled six reservations by former Governor Evans Kidero. She noted that as the speaker, she has the power to rule on questions that require constitutional interpretation.<\/p>\n

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