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Africa-Press – Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>Senate Speaker Amason Kingi has maintained that a Constitutional amendment is not necessary to operationalise the Senate Oversight Fund. Senators are seeking a kitty fashioned around the National Government Constituency Development Fund to facilitate the oversight mandate.<\/p>\n

MPs Gichimu Githinji (Gichugu) and Stephen Mule (Matungulu) have authored two legislative proposals that seek to have the funds anchored in law. However, Kingi on Wednesday rejected the proposed amendments to the Constitution.<\/p>\n

\u201cChanging the Constitution to operationalize the fund is the most dangerous path and the House will reject such attempts,\u201d he said. Kingi who spoke when he opened a two-day post-election seminar for the Senators in Mombasa, cautioned against \u201cmaking it a public issue”.<\/p>\n

He noted that the Senate will not take the constitutional review route, but will instead pursue other avenues to have the fund operationalised. \u201cOnce we resume, we will be having a sitting with our members in the committee to look at ways in which we can be able to operationalize the fund,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

During his address to a joint sitting of Parliament last September, President William Ruto proposed the establishment of the new Senate Fund. He noted that the fund will help the Senators discharge their mandate effectively. Already, the National Assembly has formed an Ad-Hoc Committee to entrench NG-CDF into law.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Kenya. Senate Speaker Amason Kingi has maintained that a Constitutional amendment is not necessary to operationalise the Senate Oversight Fund. Senators are seeking a kitty fashioned around the National Government Constituency Development Fund to facilitate the oversight mandate. 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