Elgeyo Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen has been engaging in online battles accusing the President of out muscling the Role of the Senate.
Hon Kipchumba Murkomen however has been accused of pure hypocrisy and one which requires to be treated with contempt! by The National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale.
The Genesis of the battle which President Uhuru Kenyatta has been sucked in is the Accenting of the Health Laws.
According to Kipchumba Murkomen the President assumed the role of the Senate and accented to the Health(Amendment) Bill of 2019.
Kipchumba Murkomen: This is a deliberate attempt to try to muscle out the responsibility of the Senate as an Institution #TheBigStory with @lindahoguttu pic.twitter.com/GzPWzXpanB
— ktn (@KTNKenya) May 15, 2019
But Aden Duale rubbished Murkomen Claims stating that the Health Bill followed the due process.
“The Bill was passed by the National Assembly last year in December and was returned with President’s Reservations on few items of the Bill on 30th December, 2018 for reconsideration by the National Assembly in terms of Article 115 of the Constitution.The National Assembly thereafter considered the reservations and approved the Bill fully accommodating the President’s reservations on 28th February, 2019,” Duale has stated.
Though Murkomen has continued with his push to attack the President of Out Muscling the Senate.