{"id":13368,"date":"2024-02-21T15:23:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T15:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=13368"},"modified":"2024-02-21T15:23:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T15:23:29","slug":"azimio-members-of-parliament-storms-out-of-parliament-during-affordable-housing-bill-debate-after-their-attempts-to-propose-amendments-were-thwarted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=13368","title":{"rendered":"Azimio Members of Parliament storms out of Parliament during Affordable Housing Bill debate after their attempts to propose amendments were thwarted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/425346041_785516843597083_7220502727265731668_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/425346041_785516843597083_7220502727265731668_n.jpg 526w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/425346041_785516843597083_7220502727265731668_n-480x480.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 526px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several Azimio MPs had proposed amendments to the Bill including and not limited to deducting 1.5% of the net salary and not gross salary as per the Bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, each of their amendments were thrown out by the majority side, which shouted them down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/images-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13370\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Minority Whip Junet Mohamed claimed Parliament was under Executive dictatorship and warned of possibility of Bills being rushed to the House without due process. He also claimed that some Azimio MPs had been coerced to vote in favor of the Bill or risk developments happening in their constituencies being stopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bill\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.digital\/news\/affordable-housing-bill-sails-through-second-reading-after-141-mps-support-58-oppose-n337068?preview=true&amp;user_id=749\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sailed through to the Second Reading<\/a>\u00a0in the National Assembly after 141 MPs voted to support it against 58 who opposed it during the Tuesday sitting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several Azimio MPs had proposed amendments to the Bill including and not limited to deducting 1.5% of the net salary and not gross salary as per the Bill. However, each of their amendments were thrown out by the majority side, which shouted them down. Minority Whip Junet Mohamed claimed Parliament was under Executive dictatorship and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/images-5.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13371,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13368\/revisions\/13371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}