{"id":123116,"date":"2025-10-15T09:09:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/10\/15\/wetangula-adjourns-house-as-ruto-chairs-key-security-session-on-raila-death\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T09:09:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:09:38","slug":"wetangula-adjourns-house-as-ruto-chairs-key-security-session-on-raila-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wetangula-adjourns-house-as-ruto-chairs-key-security-session-on-raila-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Wetangula adjourns House as Ruto chairs key security session on Raila death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 15 \u2014 The National Assembly was on Wednesday morning adjourned following the demise of ODM leader and longtime opposition chief Raila Amolo Odinga.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaker Moses Wetang\u2019ula invoked his authority under Standing Order 1 to halt House proceedings, directing Members of Parliament to reconvene later in the afternoon for official communication.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will invoke my authority under Standing Order Number One, and I direct as follows: the sitting this morning is adjourned,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will have a sitting at 2:30 PM this afternoon, where the Speaker will give you important communication. For now, the House stands adjourned to 2:30 PM this afternoon,\u201d Wetang\u2019ula told MPs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2025\/10\/president-ruto-chairs-national-security-council-following-railas-death\/\">President Ruto chairs National Security Council following Raila\u2019s death \u00bb Capital News (capitalfm.co.ke)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2025\/10\/detention-constitutional-reform-and-handshakes-raila-odinga-bows-out-at-80\/\">Detention, constitutional reform and handshakes: Raila Odinga bows out at 80 \u00bb Capital News (capitalfm.co.ke)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The announcement came moments after news of Odinga\u2019s death spread across the country, plunging the nation into mourning.<\/p>\n<p>President William Ruto was set to issue a national address after chairing a National Security Council.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 15 \u2014 The National Assembly was on Wednesday morning adjourned following the demise of ODM leader and longtime opposition chief Raila Amolo Odinga. Speaker Moses Wetang\u2019ula invoked his authority under Standing Order 1 to halt House proceedings, directing Members of Parliament to reconvene later in the afternoon for official communication. \u201cI will [&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-123116","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\/123116","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=123116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}