President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday stepped in to quell the simmering tension in the Senate over the proposed revenue sharing formula among the 47 county governments. His intervention followed mounting pressure on senators to shelve the proposed "retrogressive and unfair" formula. President Kenyatta indefinitely cancelled a high stakes senators’ meeting to discuss the cash allocation method that had split the lawmakers. The legislators were headed for a nasty clash after Orange Democratic Movement leader Raila Odinga reportedly instructed party senators to join their colleagues from the marginalised areas to reject the proposed formula. The contentious formula (the Mithika Linturi formula) is an improvement on the one proposed by the Commission on Revenue Allocation, the panel says.

Source: The Star July 06, 2020 20:03 UTC