Hassan Omar drops Senate speakership to back ex-Kilifi governor Amason Kingi

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Sources have intimated to The Standard that Kingi will be deputised by Meru Senator-elect Kathuri Murungi.

President Uhuru Kenyatta, in a gazette notice published on Monday, September 5, declared that the first sitting of the third Senate of the 13th Parliament will be on Thursday, starting at 9 am.

The sitting will be undertaken concurrently, in the 68-member Senate and the 350-member National Assembly.

Senate invited eligible members of the public to apply for the Speaker position.