Kitui South MP elect Rachel Nyamai in a past event.(Photo/the-star.co.ke)
Kitui South MP elect Rachel Nyamai has dared NASA MPs to skip the swearing in slated for Thursday next week.
Nyamai, who was re-elected on a Jubilee Party ticket after decamping from Wiper party, says that they (Jubilee MP elects) are not bothered on whether their NASA counterparts will turn up for swearing in or not.
In interview with the Daily Nation, Nyamai said that the swearing in of newly elected MPs will go whether NASA i will be in attendance or not.
Nyamai said that NASA MPs want to derail Parliament order of activities by skipping the swearing in.
“They (NASA MP elects) will be doing dis-service to their constituents if they fail to turn up for swearing in on Thursday,” she said as quoted by the Daily Nation.
Nyamai said that Parliament will go on with its planned activities, saying their (MPs) main agenda is to formulate laws that will better all Kenyans.
NASA MP elects have threatened boycott the swearing in claiming that it is not proper for them to be sworn in yet their leader Raila Odinga has filed a presidential petition against President Uhuru Kenyatta’s re-election before the Supreme court.
The opposition MPs led by Suna East lawmaker Junet Mohamed wants the swearing in postponed to 1st September when the Supreme Court will have made a ruling on the presidential petition.
Garissa MP Aden Duale who is the outgoing National Assembly majority leader has however said that the swearing in will go on as gazetted.
In a press briefing on Friday, Duale said that NASA MPs cannot stop the swearing in ceremony.