{"id":107805,"date":"2025-01-16T08:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T08:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/court-dismisses-orwobas-petition-contesting-suspension-from-senate\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T08:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T08:04:12","slug":"court-dismisses-orwobas-petition-contesting-suspension-from-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/court-dismisses-orwobas-petition-contesting-suspension-from-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Court dismisses Orwoba\u2019s petition contesting suspension from Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 16 \u2013 The High Court has ruled in favor of the Senate\u2019s decision to suspend nominated Senator Gloria Orwoba for one session, dismissing her petition challenging the suspension.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The court upheld the findings of the Senate Committee on Powers and Privileges, which had investigated allegations of misconduct against Orwoba.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Lawrence Mugambi ruled that the committee acted within its constitutional and legislative mandate to maintain decorum and uphold the Code of Conduct for Members of Parliament.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Senate\u2019s decision to suspend Orwoba followed her public allegations against a Senate official, which the committee found to breach parliamentary privilege.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 16 \u2013 The High Court has ruled in favor of the Senate\u2019s decision to suspend nominated Senator Gloria Orwoba for one session, dismissing her petition challenging the suspension.\u00a0 The court upheld the findings of the Senate Committee on Powers and Privileges, which had investigated allegations of misconduct against Orwoba. Justice Lawrence Mugambi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}