Senate Speaker Amason Kingi has banned Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna from parliament precincts for three days.
The ban means he will not be allowed to access precincts of Parliament, including the offices, committee rooms, lounges, and dining halls.
Speaker Kingi has directed the sergeant-at-arms to ensure the directive is effected.
Sifuna was banned after the speaker received a report that the senator had violated the Standing Orders.
It is said that the Senator had shouted "Shame! Shame! Shame!” to the Speaker's procession that was being led by Nominated Senator Veronica Maina.
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Standing Order 122 (1) highlights the instances in which a Senator displays gross disorderly conduct which include “disrupts or attempts to disrupt the Speaker’s Procession”.
After shouting that, Maina is said to have confronted Sifuna on why he was doing so leading to a scuffle of sorts.
“At this point that a verbal altercation between the two Senators ensued. Officers of the Sergeant-at-Arms and several Senators who were in the room intervened to calm down the two Senators and defuse the engagement, which would have otherwise resulted in an unpleasant physical exchange,” he said.
“Upon interrogating the report, I have made a determination that the actions of Sifuna in shouting as he did at the procession of the Speaker amounted to a disruption or attempt to disrupt the Speaker’s Procession.”
The three-day ban which began on Tuesday will lapse on Thursday midnight.
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