The Joint Committee on National Cohesion and Equal opportunity.

The Joint Committee on National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity shall is appointed under S.O. No. 214. Its role is to: -

DHAKA, Bangladesh - 3 April, 2017. Global action on the drought and famine situation received a major boost yesterday when a proposal for Emergency Motion on Urgent international action to save millions of people from famine and drought in parts of Africa and Yemen was adopted for debate at the Assembly of the Inter-parliamentary Union (IPU) currently taking place in Dhaka, Bangladesh that brings together about 700 legislators from 132 countries.

Senate commences its special sittings under Speaker Ekwe Ethuro as requested by Majority Leader Kithure Kindiki to discuss bills passed by the National Assembly last week among others.

Sen. Susan Kihika-Majority Whip

Senator Susan Kihika is the second senator to be elected to represent Nakuru County in the Senate under the 2010 constitution. She is one of the three women senators elected in the 2017 general elections. Senator Kihika is privileged to have been appointed by her party to be the Majority Whip for the Senate. Kihika is a lawyer by profession. She holds a Political Science and Government degree from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas, USA and a Juris Doctorate law degree from the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, USA.