{"id":14059,"date":"2022-09-07T00:07:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T00:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=14059"},"modified":"2022-09-07T00:12:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T00:12:38","slug":"vihiga-senator-godfrey-osotsi-backs-marende-for-speakers-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=14059","title":{"rendered":"Vihiga senator Godfrey Osotsi backs Marende for speaker&#8217;s position."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Newly elected Vihiga county senator Hon Godfrey Osotsi has backed former house speaker Kenneyh Marende for speaker nayional assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"652\" src=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/inbound1472244323166904899.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14060\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/inbound1472244323166904899.jpg 720w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/inbound1472244323166904899-300x272.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption><strong><em>Moses Wetangula Kenya Kwanza&#8217;s choice for speaker national assembly.<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Osotsi on Monday said Marende&#8217;s tenure as Speaker brought sobriety to debates and development.<br>He also hailed the Azimio move to front Marende for the position saying it was the best idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/inbound2501678438831791915.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/inbound2501678438831791915.png 640w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/inbound2501678438831791915-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption><strong><em>Marende vs Wetangula.<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Osotsi says Marende\u2019s experience is most needed now to unite the Kenya Kwanza and Azimio camps so that the country can move forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;<strong><em>We believe this country is at a critical stage that needs a Speaker who has integrity, impartiality and the ability to unite legislators across the political divide,\u201d Osotsi said.<br>Osotsi says Marende has all the qualities needed to lead the House<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Marende hailed for his Solomonic wisdom during his tenure as speaker is expected to square it out with Kenya Kwanza&#8217;s Omar Hassan or Kingi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will be interesting to see how the contest goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kalonzo Musyoka and Moses Wetangula will face of in the national assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/wetanglam\/status\/1566651183363661826?t=FWrqFymxtVfFzu62yybSVA&#038;s=19\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly elected Vihiga county senator Hon Godfrey Osotsi has backed former house speaker Kenneyh Marende for speaker nayional assembly. Moses Wetangula Kenya Kwanza&#8217;s choice for speaker national assembly. Osotsi on Monday said Marende&#8217;s tenure as Speaker brought sobriety to debates and development.He also hailed the Azimio move to front Marende for the position saying it &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14059"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14067,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14059\/revisions\/14067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}