Ugunja MP Opiyo Wandayi after he was ejected from Parliament during President Kenyatta’s State of the Nation address on March 31, 2016. [nation.co.ke]Ugunja MP Opiyo Wandayi has called on other Nasa MPs and Senators to boycott President Uhuru Kenyatta's address of a joint sitting of the bicameral House on Tuesday.Wandayi, a fierce critic of Uhuru, has said that NASA cannot sit and listen to a 'lame duck' President."As NASA members, and I for that matter, find it politically untenable to sit in Parliament and listen to a person against whom my party leader is competing," Wandayi said on Sunday in Nairobi as quoted by the Star.Wandayi criticised Uhuru’s decision to address Parliament at a time when he is a temporary head of state."The writers of the Constitution did not envisage a situation where a lame duck President, a limping president for that matter, would come to address Parliament when he is at the same time on the campaign trail," Wandayi said.He added: "Nowhere in the Constitution and the Standing Orders do we find anything untoward would happen if the President doesn’t address the opening of a new Parliament."However, Deputy President William Ruto, in an interview at Citizen TV on Sunday evening told off Nasa MPs saying it is not a must they attend the sitting."MPs are elected leaders and nobody can force them to attend a sitting of Parliament. If they want to stay away, let them do. After all, Jubilee is only short of 19 MPs to a supermajority. We can even change the constitution if we want," said Ruto.Uhuru is scheduled to deliver a speech to members of the National Assembly and the Senate in his official opening of the 12th Parliament.The Constitution requires the President to address each newly elected Parliament within 30 days after the swearing-in of MPs as provided for in the House Standing Orders.

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