PHOTO | FILE Mwingi central MP Joe Musyimi Mutambu.
NATION
The Senate is the right place to take a Bill to reduce the number of counties, an MP has been advised.
However, MPs warned Mwingi Central legislator Joe Mutambu, the originator of the idea, that cutting down the number of counties from 47 would be a long and tedious process that would require to be endorsed at a referendum.
However, MPs warned Mwingi Central legislator Joe Mutambu, the originator of the idea, that cutting down the number of counties from 47 would be a long and tedious process that would require to be endorsed at a referendum.
“In
my view, I don’t think it serves the interests of counties or even on
the wage bill,” Ol-Joro Orok MP John Muriithi Waiganjo told the Nation. “There are more important and express ways we can deal with the wage bill without looking at the structure of counties.”
Mr
Waiganjo said anything that touches on the framework of the
Constitution would require public participation and must pass the test
at a referendum.
APPROPRIATE WAY
The
Justice and Legal Affairs Committee member said the more appropriate
way to deal with the wage bill would be reduction of constituencies and
seats in Parliament.
Mr Mutambu has told reporters
that he also plans to reduce the number of Members of National Assembly
from 349, while a reduction of counties would effectively reduce number
of senators and governors.
Although Mr Mutambu has not
yet produced a draft of his Bill, a majority of the Senators and Members
of the National Assembly have stated they would oppose it.
Majority
Leader Aden Duale advised the MP to “have a good look at the
Constitution” and if he is serious, to give the Bill to the Senate, but
warned it would not be easy.
Ugunja MP Opiyo Wandayi (ODM) said the Bill was “totally ill-advised and retrogressive.
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