Speaker Ekwee Ethuro summons senators for special sitting on Thursday

Senate Speaker Ekwee Ethuro

Senate Speaker Ekwee Ethuro has summoned Senators for a special sittings on Thursday, 5^th January 2017 to debate contested electoral law amendments.

The special sitting is meant for discussing Electoral Laws (Amendment) Act 2016, that was approved by the National Assembly during an acrimonious session that saw CORD MPs refuse to vote on the matter and walk out of the chambers in protest.

Senators had initially criticized their speaker for convening a special sitting on Wednesday over matters, according to them were not urgent or exceptional.

The Senators sought the speaker’s clarification on whether the sitting had properly been constituted, pointing out that parliamentary standing orders had clear provisions on what should be done to necessitate a special sitting.