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Impeachments, revenue sharing formula wrangle top Parliament business Tuesday December 29 2020 By EDWIN MUTAI Summary The Senate was for months divided on grounds that the new formula that places more weight on population would deny less populous counties billions of shillings. It took the Senate a record 10 failed attempts to break the revenue sharing impasse that culminated in the retention of the old formula that has been used for the last five years. In September, Senators finally struck a deal and approved the new revenue-sharing law that had stalled the passage of the County Allocation of Revenue (CAR) Bill 2020. It was a dramatic year in Parliament that saw counties endure a four month wait for their equitable share of revenue as Senators failed to agree on the sharing formula needed to unlock the release of the funds. ....
THE STANDARD Raila Odinga at a church service in Bondo on December 25, 2020. Handshake and later BBI came to shatter the prevailing political order, and not even the Covid-19 pandemic could slow his “reggae” clarion call for referendum. [Collins Oduor, Standard] Dubbed the “enigma”, opposition leader Raila Odinga’s hand is traceable to every major political development and trends the country experienced this year. 2020 was the year when the full might of the Raila phenomenon – painstakingly built over the years through scores, losses, betrayals and retreats – was fully felt. Still, he told Citizen TV last night that the year was equally challenging for him. ....