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Counties on the edge as governors and senators feud

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The Senate session during Meru Governor Kawira Mwangaza's Impeachment hearing on November 8, 2023. [ Elvis Ogina, Standard]

A feud between governors and senators is deepening in several counties as stack differences between the leaders begin to play out in public.

Residents claim some of the feuds are threatening service delivery, while genuine oversight by some senators has degenerated into a supremacy contest by unsettled county chiefs.

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