The Commission on Administrative Justice wants an audit to be carried out on the alleged injustice in the issuance of passports by the Department of Immigration.

The Commission submitted a report to the Senate Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations detailing complaints made by citizens on social media against the Department of Immigration.

The Commission undertook an in depth investigation on the matter following reports by Kenyans of being overcharged for passports by the Department.

Kisii County Governor Simba Arati has until October 30, 2023 to submit a comprehensive report on the question of pending bills in the County.

Governor Arati who appeared before the Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Budget told the committee that his government inherited pending bills documented for the financial year 2021/2022 as at June 30, 2022 amounting to Ksh. 1,393,854,414.

Today, the Senate Committee on County Public Investments and Special Funds (CPISFC) convened under the leadership of Senator Godfrey Osotsi to deliberate on the Auditor-General's Reports on the financial statements of eight water companies in Kiambu County, spanning the fiscal years 2018/19, 2019/20, and 2020/21.

A committee of the Senate has given the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) a month ultimatum to conclude investigations into the outstanding imprest for Bungoma County which has dragged on since 2019.

The County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC) gave the directive after it was told concerned employees have failed to surrender the imprest amounting to Sh67 million as at June 2020 because the Commission had carted away documents related to the issuance of the imprests.

Several key elements of the devolved functions accounting for Ksh. 272.2 Billion are still run by the National Government ten years since Devolution kicked off in Kenya.

This is according to the Intergovernmental Relations Technical Committee (IGRCT) that appeared before the Senate Standing Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations.

IGRCT's delegation led by its Chairperson CPA, Kithinji Kiragu told Senators that considerable resources needed to fund devolved functions still remain in the hands of the National Government.