Drama as Duale clash with Murkomen

Senate Majority leader and National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale, both from Jubilee Party on Tuesday took a moment of drama on social media.

The two traded with bitter words over Duale’s sponsored bill.

The Health Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2019 that was signed into law by President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday was the source of the clash.

It all started when the senate started advising the public not to adhere to a law signed by the president that amended sections of the health act.

Murkomen says the law was signed without the participation of the senate.

The two then took to Twitter where they traded barbs over the legality of the contentious Bill.

Duale fired the first salvo terming Murkomen as ‘hypocritical’ for challenging the assenting of the Bill by the President.

The Bill was passed by the National Assembly in December last year but was returned with Uhuru’s reservations on some clauses of the Bill on December 30 for reconsideration by Parliament in terms of Article 115 of the Constitution.

The August House thereafter considered the reservations and approved the Bill on February 28, 2019.

The Garissa Town MP wondered why Murkomen waited until the Bill was assented to raise concerns on the nature of the Bill and why he never shared his reservations with the House speaker.

“The Bill was passed last year by the @NAssemblyKE why raise issues on the Bill 5 months later? Only he can answer but whatever his reasoning one thing is certain he has chosen to feign ignorance of the provisions of the Constitution. For what reasons only he knows,” Duale added.

However, soon after the series of tweets by Duale, Murkomen hit back.

The Elgeyo Marakwet Senator said he was not aware the Health Bill was among those to be assented to by the President when he was invited to State House.

Here is his series of tweets.

 

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