The power tussle between the National Assembly and the Senate has escalated.
The Senate has now decided to seek legal redress after it alleged that the National Assembly enacted more than 20 laws without their input in the same.
Led by Speaker Kenneth Lusaka, the senators took to the High Court where they filed a petition seeking for the house to address the matter with immediate effect.
The senate claim that the national assembly has enacted more than 26 acts of Parliament without consulting them. Leaders of Majority Kipchumba Murkomen and MinorityJames Orengo had to walk all the way to the Milimani Law Courts to file the petition in protest of the passing of the laws.
The senators have now accusedSpeaker of the National Assembly Justin Muturi of not taking into account their opinions when it comes to matters of enactment of the law.
The Supreme Court faulted Muturi for not listening to his counterpart in the Senator as far as the enactment of different laws is concerned.
Muturi has since been ordered to shed more light on the laws passed without the input of the senates. The senators now feel demeaned by the Members of Parliament when it comes to making of crucial laws.
“Neither Speaker may, to the exclusion of the other, determine the nature of a Bill. That would inevitably result in usurpations of jurisdiction, to the prejudice of the constitutional principle of the harmonious interplay of State institutions,” the Supreme Court observed, as quoted by Daily Nation.