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Kenya: Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan to Address Kenyan Parliament Wednesday

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Nairobi — Parliament is on Wednesday set to hold a special joint sitting for an address by Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan.

President Suluhu arrived in the country on Tuesday morning and was scheduled to hold bilateral talks with her host president Uhuru Kenyata at State House, Nairobi.

Speakers of the bicameral House, Justin Muturi of the National Assembly and his Senate counterpart Kenneth Lusaka said the special session will be held on Wednesday afternoon in the National Assembly chambers.

Speaker Lusaka notified members that the agenda that had initially been set for the House during the Wednesday sitting including the consideration of the impeachment motion of Wajir Governor Mohammed Mohamud and the debate of the Constitutional Amendment Bill 2020 had been canceled.

“Accordingly, I notify all Senators that the special sittings of the Senate scheduled for Wednesday at 10.00 a.m. and 2.30 p.m., as set out in Gazette Notice No. 4196 of 2021, are cancelled,” he said.

Officials said Parliament will use the meeting to bolster the two nations’ ties after months of strained relations, fuelled by border closures during the COVID-19 lockdown.

President Kenyatta last month dispatched Sports Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohammed to Tanzania to formally invite President Suluhu.

During her visit, President Suluhu will also meet with the business community from both Kenya and Tanzania.

Kenya and Tanzania were in January 2021 embroiled in a diplomatic row over the handling of the latter’s COVID-19 pandemic.