{"id":14205,"date":"2022-09-27T06:26:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T06:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=14205"},"modified":"2022-09-27T06:29:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T06:29:11","slug":"ken-ngondi-on-course-to-becoming-nairobi-county-assembly-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=14205","title":{"rendered":"Ken Ng&#8217;ondi on course to becoming Nairobi county assembly speaker."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Ngondi cleared for Nairobi speaker contest<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Former Nairobi county Assembly deputy speaker Ken Ngondi has today been cleared to run for the position of Nairobi County Assembly Speaker.<br>Ngondi, a former Kware ward MCA confirmed that he had been cleared to take part in the contest, after presenting the necessary documentation to the Assembly Clerk.<br>Ngondi noted that he is confident of a win following his endorsement as the Azimio La Umoja One Kenya Coalition candidate for the position, this even as he continued to mobilize members ahead of Speaker\u2019s election on Thursday.<\/p><p><\/p><p><\/p><p><br><strong><em>\u201cThis afternoon we came to present ourselves before the returning officer who is the clerk, I have just returned my nomination papers to vie for the speaker position and I have been cleared,&#8221; Ngondi said.<\/em><\/strong><br>\u201cAll we are waiting for is success and I leave the rest to the Members of the Nairobi County Assembly to make a right choice,\u201d Ngondi said.<br>Ngondi banks on his experience having served as a deputy speaker at the Nairobi County Assembly between 2013-2017, he also served as a councilor and chairman of the Public Health Committee.<br>He also committed to abiding by the law while executing his mandate, if elected Speaker.<br>\u201cWhat I can promise on Nairobi MCAs and residents is that I will confine myself within the stipulated laws,\u201d he said.<br>Azimio One Kenya MCAs exuded confidence that Ngondi will win, arguing that he is experienced and that they have the numbers.<br>\u201cWe are confident Ngondi will win, he served as Deputy speaker and as at now our members are intact,\u201d stated Mabatini MCA Wilfred Odalo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"498\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/inbound8199687403843061207-498x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/inbound8199687403843061207-498x1024.jpg 498w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/inbound8199687403843061207-146x300.jpg 146w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/inbound8199687403843061207.jpg 622w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/inbound8200832198764072663.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/inbound8200832198764072663.jpg 768w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/inbound8200832198764072663-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ngondi cleared for Nairobi speaker contest Former Nairobi county Assembly deputy speaker Ken Ngondi has today been cleared to run for the position of Nairobi County Assembly Speaker.Ngondi, a former Kware ward MCA confirmed that he had been cleared to take part in the contest, after presenting the necessary documentation to the Assembly Clerk.Ngondi noted &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14205","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\/14205","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=14205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14208,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14205\/revisions\/14208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}