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President Ruto Assents To Division Of Revenue Bill, 2023

27Apr

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President Ruto Assents To Division Of Revenue Bill, 2023

President William Ruto has signed into law the Division of Revenue Bill, 2023, which the Senate passed last week. Senators considered and passed the bill on April 20 without amendments in the form passed by the National Assembly. This allocated counties Ksh.385 billion in the 2023/24 financial year, which is Ksh.15 billion more than the Ksh. 370 billion that has been allocated in the current financial year (2022/2023). During last week’s vote, 25 legislators voted to pass the Bill without amendments, outnumbering Azimio La Umoja-allied leaders who had pushed for an amendment to give counties Ksh. 407 billion. The decision was however condemed by governors, who accused the Senate of voting against the spirit of devolution. "In the history of devolution, t...

New Bill seeking to Bar Bosses from assigning duties outside agreed working hours.

Senators have backed the bill seeking to bar bosses from calling or assigning duties to their staff outside the agreed working hours. They have unanimously supported the Employment (Amendment) Bill, 2021, putting Kenya on the way to become the first country in the region to allow its employees to disconnect from work. The lawmakers argued that most employees have been forced to work round the clock, including odd hours, as result of phones and emails from their bosses giving them assignments. This, they said, has led to fatigue of the workers as they can no longer rest or have quality time with their families. “Technology has led to employees being called late at midnight and yet some of them are non-essential staff. Most of these issues have led to break-down of families ...

BBI proposal on distribution on 70 constituencies.

The IEBC has termed as unconstitutional the proposal in the BBI to allocate 70 constituencies to some 28 counties. Chairman wafula chebukati said while BBI promoters are right to create the constituencies they errared in allocating constituencies specific counties. The chairman said this before the Joint Justice and legal Affairs committees of parliament on the constitution of Kenya (Ammendment) Bill 2020. The bill has created additional 70 constituencies to push the number to 360. The constituencies are distributed among 28 of the 47 counties. He further said his team was never consulted by the BBI promoters on the additional constituencies. The IEBC boss at the same time defended the commission for the delays in the beginning the process of delimitation of the boundari...