Parliaments of Kenya and Colombia have agreed to initiate a working engagement that will foster and strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries.

The engagement will look into and develop areas of possible cooperation between the two legislatures.

This was the agreement reached following a meeting between Senator Kathuri Murungi, the Deputy Speaker of the Senate of Kenya and Hon Dorina Hernandez Palomino, who is the President of the Chamber for Bolivar County.

A sitting of the County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC) and Garissa County executive failed aborted on Tuesday due to the delay by the county to submit response on the audit raised by the Office of the Auditor General.

The Committee had scheduled the meeting to interrogate Governor Nathif Jama on the issues raised by the Auditor General Nancy Gathungu in the County’s book of accounts for the 2019/20 financial year.

The Senate Standing Committee on Agriculture and Livestock, chaired by Kirinyaga County Sen. James Kamau Murango receiving submissions on

The Coffee Bill, 2023, and Tea ( Amendment) Bill, 2023, in Embu County. 

The Committee paid a courtesy call to Embu County Governor H.E Cecily Mutitu Mbarire.

The County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC) has directed the directed the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) to investigate how Migori County Government transferred Sh78million to the County Assembly and how the funds were utilized.

The directive was issued by the committee chairman Moses Kajwang failed to account how the funds were utilised.

The committee wants the Governor to provide evidence how County Assembly spent more than 13 per cent of the County’s revenue for the financial year ended June 2020.