Judiciary on agenda as Senate sits
What you need to know:
- Senators claim that the Judiciary has continued to deliberately interfere with their oversight role.
- Governors have already obtained court orders barring them from appearing before the Senate County Public Accounts and Investment Committee.
The frosty relationship between the Senate and the Judiciary is expected to top the agenda as the House resumes its sessions on Tuesday.
Senators claim that the Judiciary has continued to deliberately interfere with their oversight role in disregard of the principle of separation of powers.
The High Court has on a number of occasions halted the House’s resolutions and stopped the implementation of some of the laws passed and assented to by the President.
The court handed a major setback to the lawmakers when it stopped them last month from convening County Development Boards until a case filed by the county bosses was heard and determined.
AUDIT QUERIES
Governors have already obtained court orders barring them from appearing before the Senate County Public Accounts and Investment Committee, to respond to audit queries from the Auditor-General.
Unlike before when the Senate claimed it had not been served by any court order, officials from Wajir County who appeared before the committee on behalf of their governor last Thursday presented the court order, prompting it to call off its sessions.
“The High Court can only make a determination that a decision we have made is wrong. But, the court has no powers to stop Parliament from discharging its functions,” Senator Boni Khalwale, the chairman of the committee, said on Monday.
