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Nairobi \u2014 National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang’ula has dismissed criticism over President William Ruto’s absence during the presentation of the 2026\/27 Budget Statement, insisting that the exercise is exclusively a parliamentary function and does not require the Head of State’s presence.<\/p>\n
Speaking in the House ahead of Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi’s budget presentation, Wetang’ula ruled that there is no constitutional, legal or procedural requirement compelling the President to attend…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nairobi \u2014 National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang’ula has dismissed criticism over President William Ruto’s absence during the presentation of the 2026\/27 Budget Statement, insisting that the exercise is exclusively a parliamentary function and does not require the Head of State’s presence. Speaking in the House ahead of Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi’s budget presentation, Wetang’ula […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":235991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681683:b7d7d1ca11a1a53425bbab82e4008ec8:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[11086,258,256,7395,6080,7820,4688,430,257,20171,14258,2450,12640,254,19980],"class_list":["post-235990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-absence","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attend","tag-budget","tag-defends","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-obligation","tag-presentation","tag-president","tag-rutos","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wetangula"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681683:b7d7d1ca11a1a53425bbab82e4008ec8:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235990","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=235990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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