Kenya: Ababu Namwamba quits PAC, writes to Speaker to be excused from House duties until EACC clears him

NAIROBI: The chairman of the Public Accounts Committee Ababu Namwamba has written to the Speaker of the National Assembly Justin Muturi seeking to be excused from "all parliamentary business" until the anti-graft body concludes investigations into the PAC.

In the letter, Namwamba wants to be excused from attending House sittings. The MP who also sits in the House Committee on Administration and National Security, also said he needs to be excused from attending the meetings of that committee.