Senate passes Division of Revenue Bill
THE STANDARD POLITICS Session during the election of the Senate Deputy Speaker at the Senate chambers in Nairobi, June 2, 2020 [Elvis Ogina, Standard] Senate yesterday unanimously passed the Division of Revenue Bill (DORB), 2021, amid lamentations of wanton pilferage of public funds. In what seems like a move to claim stake to some additional Sh39.8 billion worth of conditional allocations, senators amended the DORB to exclude the provision of conditional allocations from the Bill. This was in line with a recommendation by the finance and budget committee following by a 2016 court ruling that...