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Africa-Press – Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>Chief Justice Martha Koome has said the courts will defend devolution.<\/p>\n

She said the courts had on several occasions defended the devolved system from laws and policies that would derail gains made since 2010.<\/p>\n

The CJ addressed the senators through a recorded video during their ongoing induction workshop in Sawela Lodge, Naivasha.<\/p>\n

Koome identified several rulings that the Supreme Court had made in the last couple of years while defending devolution.<\/p>\n

She revisited the May 2020 ruling on recurrent failure between the Senate and the National Assembly to agree on a Division of Revenue Bill.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe court directed that funds equivalent to 50 per cent of the previous year\u2019s allocation should be disbursed to the counties despite the commencement of a new financial year,\u201d Koome said.<\/p>\n

Also the ruling that the Senate had a clear role to play in the processing of the Division of Revenue Bill and the CDF case of 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese decisions by the Supreme Court are developing rich indigenous jurisprudence that has protected the spirit of devolution,\u201d the CJ said.<\/p>\n

During the workshop, Attorney General Paul Kihara decried the infighting between the Senate and National Assembly saying it was affecting the spirit of devolution.<\/p>\n

In a speech read by commissioner Caroline Saroni, the AG said the impasse was affecting enactment of various laws leading to protracted court battles.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have seen differences between the two houses when it came to various issues like the Division of Revenue Bill and in counties discharging their duties,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Saroni who is in the Advocates and Complaints commission said all bills concerning counties should go through Senate.<\/p>\n

Nakuru Governor Susan Kihika called on the incoming house to address head-on the emerging challenges as they are a threat to the authority of the Senate.<\/p>\n

She called on the Senate to consider the possibility of constitutional changes aimed at granting the Senate exclusive powers over the counties.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis to clarify mandate and scope of authority for each organ as the symmetrical bicameralism has not found appropriate balance and thus the need for constitutional changes,\u201d Kihika said.<\/p>\n

The former senator said many citizens are pessimistic about the role of the Senate adding that the public has little regard for it.<\/p>\n

\u201cVery few members of the public know the role and the importance of the Senate in the allocation of resources and controlling the excesses of the county chiefs,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

(Edited by Bilha Makokha)<\/p>\n

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