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Speaker allows senators not to wear suits as Turkana hosts plenary sitting

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Senate Speaker Amason Kingi. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Senate Speaker Amason Kingi relaxed the rule for senators wearing formal suits and ties during the Senate Mashinani sittings in Lodwar town, Turkana County.

Kingi told the senators during plenary sitting in Turkana County assembly chamber on Tuesday that due to high temperatures in the region which is in the furthest northern part of the country, members will not be required to wear their formal clothes like in Parliament Buildings in Nairobi.

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