{"id":176195,"date":"2024-07-09T06:52:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T04:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-speaker-wetangula-rejects-mps-bid-to-repeal-finance-bill-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-07-09T06:52:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T04:52:14","slug":"kenya-speaker-wetangula-rejects-mps-bid-to-repeal-finance-bill-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-speaker-wetangula-rejects-mps-bid-to-repeal-finance-bill-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Speaker Wetangula Rejects MP&#8217;s Bid to Repeal Finance Bill 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Nairobi \u2014 National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula has rejected Rarieda MP Otiende Amollo&#8217;s attempt to repeal the withdrawn Finance Bill 2024, stating that only an Act of Parliament can be repealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Amollo&#8217;s proposed Bill aimed to overturn the Finance Bill, which President Ruto declined to sign into law following public outcry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">&#8220;The Finance Bill, 2024 is not an Act of Parliament and cannot become an Act of Parliament by effluxion of time. Your proposed draft repeal Bill of the Finance Bill,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407080550.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula has rejected Rarieda MP Otiende Amollo&#8217;s attempt to repeal the withdrawn Finance Bill 2024, stating that only an Act of Parliament can be repealed. Amollo&#8217;s proposed Bill aimed to overturn the Finance Bill, which President Ruto declined to sign into law following public outcry. &#8220;The Finance Bill, 2024 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":176196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,10798,7292,7829,4688,430,7260,257,8440,18759,254,9632,19980],"class_list":["post-176195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bid","tag-bill","tag-finance","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-mps","tag-news","tag-rejects","tag-repeal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speaker","tag-wetangula"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}