The Consideration of the Finance Bill, 2024 has commenced with the First Reading of the Bill on Monday, May 13, 2024.

The House convened for a Special Sitting whose main objective was to receive the Report of the Special Select Committee on the removal from office of Hon. Mithika Linturi, the Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture and Livestock Development.

The High Court has allowed an application supported by the National Assembly for the joinder of the Senate as an interested party to a petition challenging a recently enacted health law.

Justice Alfred Mabeya, Justice Robert Limo and Justice Freda Mugambi allowed the application during a mention of the case in which the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union (KMPDU) and three other petitioners are challenging the legality of the recently enacted Social Health Insurance Act, 2023.