Thursday, February 8, 2024 - Attorney General Justin Muturi has surprised Kenyans after he distanced himself from President William Ruto’s housing project.
Appearing before the Parliamentary Joint
Committee of Finance and Housing on Wednesday, Muturi who is the Kenya Kwanza
Alliance chief legal advisor, faulted the National Assembly for considering the
Affordable Housing Bill of 2023 without involving the Senate.
Muturi said that housing is a
devolved function, and the Senate must be involved despite the bill expressly
exempting the Senate from its consideration.
The AG, however, confirmed that
his office was involved in the drafting of the must-have law that seeks to cure
gaps highlighted by the High Court when it nullified the exercise.
Muturi told Parliament that his
office takes responsibility for the gaps on which the courts base their
decisions in probing the housing levy.
"We take instructions from state departments; they tell us this is how they want it done.
"We tell them how
to go about it. Then it goes to Parliament for amendments, which is a very
healthy democratic practice," Muturi said.
The Kenyan DAILY POST
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