Senate Speaker Kingi on the spot for being "Ruto's spanner boy"

Speaker of the Senate Amason Kingi during a requiem Mass at the AIC Church Milimani in Nairobi on February 27, 2025. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

Senate Speaker Amason Jeffah Kingi’s apparent blind loyalty to President William Ruto exhibited on a number of occasions by rubber-stamping executive dictates in the Senate, has put him on the spot as critics accuse him of being biased.

Critics are questioning Kingi’s latest move in which he swiftly ratified the ouster of embattled nominated senator Gloria Orwoba and declared a vacancy in her position.

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