PREMIUM What Sifuna, Osotsi stand to lose after Senate Committee purge Beyond the political implications, the reshuffle carries significant financial consequences. Politics 17 min ago

Photo credit: Wilfred Nyangaresi | Nation Media Group The broad-based angle The reshuffle also places Senate Minority Leader Stewart Madzayo in the County Public Accounts Committee, replacing Mr Sifuna in what many observers see as an attempt to install legislators viewed as more accommodating to the broad-based political arrangement between President Ruto and sections of the opposition.

Mr Sifuna, one of the Senate's fiercest critics of President William Ruto's administration, was also removed from the powerful Senate County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC) and reassigned to the Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries Committee, days after he was stripped of his position as Senate Deputy Minority Whip.

Article A reshuffle of Senate committees has stripped Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna and his Vihiga counterpart Godfrey Osotsi of some of the most influential parliamentary positions, denying them powerful oversight roles, reducing their influence in the House and costing them committee leadership allowances worth up to Sh240,000 a month.