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Nairobi woman sues Senate Speaker Ken Lusaka demanding KSh 25 million upkeep for unborn child

Senate Speaker Ken Lusaka addressing the people during a past event at Kitale, Trans-Nzoia County A woman has sued Senate Speaker Kenneth Lu

Nairobi woman sues Senate Speaker Ken Lusaka demanding KSh 25 million upkeep for unborn child

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Why Senate Speaker Ekwe Ethuro had to go

Why Senate Speaker Ekwe Ethuro had to go

Jubilee Party’s withdrawal of support for Ekwee Ethuro in the race for Senate speaker did not come as a surprise. At a Jubilee Parliamentary Group meeting at State House Nairobi on Wednesday, President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto whipped Jubilee legislators to vote for immediate former Bungoma Governor Kenneth Lusaka. It was a clear message that Mr Ethuro had fallen out of favour…

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Thai Senate speaker suspended,faces impeachment vote

BANGKOK, March 20:

A Thai anti-corruption panel suspended the Senate speaker on Thursday for supporting a failed legislative attempt by the party of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to make the upper house fully elected.

Nikom Wairatpanij now faces an impeachment vote and a possible political ban linked to the attempt to amend the constitution to reform the Senate, Thailand’s upper house.

He is one of hundreds of mostly pro-Yingluck politicians charged by the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) over the bill.

The legislation was deemed by the Constitutional Court in November to be unconstitutional.

Yingluck faces a series of legal challenges, including negligence charges connected to a rice subsidy scheme, that are seen by her supporters as part of an attempted power grab through the courts.

If deemed guilty by the NACC, whose mandate includes investigating possible abuse of power, she could face a five-year political ban.

Experts said that in this scenario control of the Senate could be important because the lower house was dissolved before a February election that has not yet been completed due to disruption by opposition protesters.

Thailand is due to hold polls on March 30 for the elected seats in the Senate, which is officially non-partisan.

Yingluck has faced more than four months of mass street protests seeking to force her from office and install an unelected government to oversee reforms and curb the dominance of her billionaire family.

The rift pits Yingluck and her followers — mostly from northern Thailand — against an opposition which enjoys support in Bangkok, the south and among the Thai elite.

Political violence, often targeting protesters with gunfire and grenade blasts, has left 23 people dead and hundreds wounded during the recent crisis.

On Tuesday Thailand ended a state of emergency in force for almost two months in Bangkok and surrounding areas, reflecting an improvement in security since protesters scaled down their rallies at the start of March.

The Constitutional Court is due Friday to deliver a ruling on a new legal attempt to nullify the Feb 2 election. A similar request, submitted by the opposition, was rejected by the same court last month.