The Trade, Industry and Cooperatives Committee chaired by Hon. James Gakuya (Embakasi North), conducted a visit to the New Kenya Cooperative Creameries (KCC) plants in Kitale and Eldoret.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mr. Nixon Sigei, took Members on a comprehensive tour of the upgraded facilities, where they were briefed on the positive impact of modernization measures on production and operations. 

The main focus of the visit was to assess the profitability of the modernization project and its implications for Kenya's dairy farming. 

The National Assembly Committee on Constitutional Implementation and Oversight chaired by Hon. Gathoni Wamuchomba (Kiambu) met with the Deputy Chief Executive Officer (DCEO)  of the Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) Mr. Abdi Mohamud, over the discharge of the Commission's Constitutional and Statutory mandate.

The Commission's mandate is to combat corruption and economic crime in Kenya through law enforcement, prevention, public education and promotion of standards and practices of integrity, ethics and anti-corruption. 

Regional Integration Committee chaired by Hon. Wanjiku Muhia (Kipipiri) held  stakeholders engagement with the Ministry of Roads and Transport and the Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs  in a bid to look for ways of collaboration and coordination to advance the cause of regional integration in the East Africa Community (EAC) region.

The Cabinet Secretary (CS), Ministry of Roads and Transport Hon. Kipchumba Murkomen and the two Principal Secretaries (PSs), Eng. Joseph Mbugua and Mr. Mohamed Daghar were the first lot to appear before the Committee.

Members of the Diaspora Affairs and Migrant Workers Committee and their counterparts from the Departmental Committee on Defence, Intelligence and Foreign Relations have called on the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for the Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs Dr. Alfred Mutua to work closely with legislators in advancing Kenya’s national interests abroad. 

The call comes in the wake of complaints from Members that the CS had failed to honour several invitations to appear before the two Committees in the last few months.

Members Parliament drawn from five Committees of the National Assembly,  including Administration and Internal Affairs; Defence, Intelligence and Foreign Relations; Lands; Justice and Legal Affairs and National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity and the Kenya Women Parliamentary Association (KEWOPA), held a consultative forum with the Independent Panel of Advisors (IPA), to assess the current Peacebuilding Architecture in Kenya.