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Members of the National Assembly will meet today for a Special Sitting to consider President William Ruto’s nominees for the position of Director of Public Prosecutions and Chairman of the board of Central Bank of Kenya (CBK).

The lawmakers will debate the report of the Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, that vetted Renson Ingonga for the position of DPP, and that of Finance and National Planning and the Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Budget, which vetted former Jubilee Party National Elections Board chair Andrew Musangi for the position of CBK chairman.

MPs sitting in both committees said members would unanimously approve the nominees.

If approved, Ingonga (pictured) will replace Noordin Haji following his appointment in June as the Director-General National Intelligence Service (NIS).

Musangi, who is a lawyer and a senior consultant at LJA associates, will replace Mohamed Nyaoga whose four year-year term as CBK board chairman expired in June.

The lawmakers will also consider the Joint Report of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning and the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock on the Memorandum by the National Treasury and Economic Planning on Action Plans to Revive and Commercialize five State-owned sugar companies.

This follows a request by the National Treasury to write off loans and tax penalties worth Sh117.64 billion accrued by the five sugar companies namely Nzoia, Chemelil, Miwani, Muhoroni and South Nyanza.

The joint committees has been conducting stakeholder engagement in Western and Nyanza region as part of efforts to clear the way for the government to revive the companies.

The special sitting came after Speaker of the National Assembly Moses Wetang’ula said he had accepted a request by Leader of Majority Kimani Ichung’wah to hold the sitting.

Said Wetang’ula: “I have received and acceded to the request from the Leader of the Majority Party for the National Assembly to hold Special Sittings on Thursday, 14th September 2023,” he said.

During the sittings, MPs will also consider the Report of the Select Committee on the National Government Constituencies Development Fund on the approval for appointment of the nominees to the National Government Constituencies Development Fund Board.