The Speaker of the National Assembly Moses Wetang’ula has been re-elected as Africa bloc representative in the Standing Committee of the Conference of Speakers and Presiding officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC). Speaker Wetang’ula was appointed by consensus to serve the second term due to his exceptional leadership ability. The Speaker was re-elected during the Africa Region Geo-political meeting held at the sidelines of the CSPOC in Kampala, Uganda. Notably, the Africa region has three representatives in the CSPOC Standing Committee hence Wetang’ula will represent Africa along with the Speaker of Ghana and the Speaker of the Kingdom of Eswatini. The…
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The government has so far received close to 9,787 Electronic Travel Authorization applications in the last one week following last year’s decision by the government to abolish visa requirements for all visitors coming into the country. This is according to immigration principal secretary Julius Bitok who says that the new applications were made through the newly introduced government online portal. Of the new applications, the PS added, 4,046 have already been processed while others are undergoing review on priority basis guided by the travel schedule submitted by each applicant. The applications come just days after Interior cabinet secretary Kithure Kindiki…
The State broadcaster’s books of accounts and the Auditor-General’s reports show nothing in terms of revenue generated from the supposed partnership with Multichoice.
The employees of the Postal Corporation of Kenya have a reason to smile after the Senate Committee on Information, Communication and Technology directed the Cabinet Secretary for ICT and Digital Economy to pay their salary arrears before Christmas. This comes after Nandi Senator Samson Cherarkey raised concerns on the financial status and operations of the Postal Corporation of Kenya through a request for a statement on the floor of the House, in which he requested to know why Posta had not paid salaries to its staff from July to date. And in a meeting with the Senate ICT Committee, CS…
The Senate has initiated plans to take a disciplinary action against Nairobi governor Johnson Sakaja including disciplinary action after the county boss failed to honour summons. The Senate made the resolutions after Sakaja failed to appear before the Senate committee on Roads, Transportation and Housing for the seventh time today. The governor, through Nairobi City County acting Chief of staff, wrote to the committee requesting the committee to postpone the meeting since he was in Cape Town, South Africa attending a water conference. “The summons was served on November 29th, 2023 and the response came in the same day, the…
The National Basketball Association (NBA) has formally opened a new office in Nairobi, expanding its presence and footprint in Kenya and on the African continent. NBA – America’s popular professional basketball league, opened the office just two months after the government signed a memorandum of understanding with the association to help grow and build basketball sports in Kenya. The Association made the announcement on Wednesday on its social media pages, signaling an increase in the number of its offices across the continent. NBA currently has offices in Egypt, Nigeria and Senegal with the new offices in Nairobi now putting Kenya…
Members of Parliament will no longer be allowed to wear Kaunda suits to the floor of the House or during committee meetings after the Speaker of the National Assembly Moses Wetang’ula banned the dress from the House. Wetang’ula, in a communication delivered to the House on Tuesday, acknowledged the historical acceptance of suit, and said that the dress code was against House rules on male attire. The speaker said that Kaunda suits have been a common feature in Parliament dating back to the 8th Parliament when the then MP for Runyenjes, Njeru Kathangu regularly wore them to the House. In…
Kenyans and visitors travelling into the country may soon be allowed to carry goods worth more than the Sh75,000 (USD500) ceiling currently being implemented by the Kenya Revenue Authority. This is after MPs in the National Assembly proposed an amendment to the East African Community treaty to have the ceiling raised to a higher figure in response to the ongoing public debate and criticism over the conduct of customs officials, especially those at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. The proposal by the National Assembly’s Finance and National Planning Committee, also wants the limit on goods revised to conform to what…
Three-judge bench says the levy is not anchored by a corresponding legal framework, does not show how it will be administered once collected and does not also show how the public will know some of its beneficiaries or the criteria used to determine the beneficiaries. The High Court has declared the housing levy fund introduced by the government through the Finance Act of 2023 illegal and unconstitutional. The court, while delivering its ruling on the Finance Act of 2023 on Tuesday, said that the fund was conceived and implemented by the government through unconstitutional means and went against the principles…
Sole male applicants in the country could soon be allowed to adopt children if a proposed Bill that seeks to amend the adoption process is passed into law. The Bill sponsored by the National Assembly leader of the majority party Kimani Ichung’wa, also seeks to cap adoption of children to parents and guardians between the ages of 25 and 65 years. The proposal by the Kikuyu MP, which has since been introduced in the House, is part of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill, 2023. It seeks to among other things, cap a 21-year age difference between the applicant(s) and…
