Senate and National Assembly set to resume sittings after month-long recess
By Mabonga Makhanu, September 23, 2025Both the Senate and the National Assembly are set to resume sittings on Tuesday, September 23, 2025, after a month-long recess.
The two houses proceeded on the 4-week annual hiatus on Thursday, August 15, 2025, with them first expected to resume sittings on September 15, 2025.
The recess was extended by a week after a vote in the Senate to September 22, following their break being interrupted for them to deliberate on important issues that had arisen as a matter of urgency while on their leave.
For the Senate, the impeachment motion of Kericho governor Erick Mutai interrupted their recesses, and they were forced to break from their recess and attend to the ouster hearing, which lasted for 3 days.
For their sake, the senators proposed that their break be compensated by adding an extra week.
The MPs on the other side were required to proceed on leave for them to attend to important constituency matters and prepare for an intensive legislative process after the recess.
These breaks, according to parliamentary standing orders and acts of parliament, are essential since they help the MPs in balancing their parliamentary duties with grassroots engagements, ensuring the lawmakers remain connected to their constituents as well as advancing national legislation as mandated to them by the constitution.
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Makueni senator Dan Maanzo has taken a swipe at the resumption of sittings by the lawmaker, stating that in the coming days, both houses will be registering low turnout since most MPs will be in various areas campaigning for their preferred candidates in the upcoming by-elections.
He further argued that it’s only when the minipolls are over that the houses will register the requisite turnout.
According to Maanzo, this is one of the prices that Kenya has to pay as a result of democracy, defending that each party needs numbers, and some votes in parliament are influenced by the numbers each party enjoys in the houses.
“Until these by-elections are done, I doubt if the houses will have any numbers. Different political parties have to go to the ground to make sure that they get these seats.” Maanzo stated.