The Senate Standing Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries led by Embu Senator Alexander Munyi Mundigi, MP, held a meeting today to consider and adopt the matrix on submissions by the Council of Governors on the Prevention of Livestock and Produce Theft Bill, 2023.

The Bill, which is sponsored by Nandi Senator Samson Cherarkey seeks to provide a framework for the establishment of mechanisms for preventing, combating and eventually eradicating livestock and produce theft.

The Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims (SUPKEM) has said there should be an entity in the Office of Registrar of Societies that will strictly deal with matters faith in term of registration and regulation of religious organisation.

The Council said the office as currently constituted by law is saddled with registration and regulation of many other entities, ranging from sports and welfare associations, making it impossible to monitor and mete out punishment where there is violation.

Senate Committee on County Public Investments and Special Funds, led by Senator Godfrey Osotsi, met with the Nairobi City County Governor, Johnson Sakaja. They discussed several audit queries raised by the Auditor General regarding the Nairobi County Water and Sewerage Company (NCWSC) during the fiscal years 2018 to 2021.

Christian religious groups have distanced themselves from the deaths in Shakahola Forest saying they are isolated cases warning the state against using the killings to regulate or clamp down on religious dominations in the country.

In fact, the groups maintained that Pastor Paul Mackenzie activities within the Shakahola Forest, in which nearly 265 bodies have been discovered, were criminal acts which are punishable by the law.

The Senate Standing Committee on Trade, Industrialization and Tourism after paying a Courtesy call to the Office of the Governor Machakos County and the County Assembly earlier today proceeded to Kamulu Shopping Centre where the newly constructed office of the Drumvale Farmers Cooperative Society Limited is situated.

The Senate Speaker Rt. Hon. Amason Jeffah Kingi, EGH, Mp today officially opened an Induction and Retreat for the Senate leadership and the Kenya Parliamentary Journalists Association (KPJA) in Mombasa County.

Speaking during the opening session, Speaker Kingi said there is need for the Senate to work closely with various stakeholders key among them Media for it to discharge its mandate effectively.