{"id":249088,"date":"2026-11-04T23:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T21:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-uda-drops-keroche-installs-maina-as-deputy-leader-in-senate\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T23:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T21:30:25","slug":"kenya-uda-drops-keroche-installs-maina-as-deputy-leader-in-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-uda-drops-keroche-installs-maina-as-deputy-leader-in-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: UDA Drops Keroche, Installs Maina As Deputy Leader in Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Nairobi \u2014 The Senate has confirmed the removal of Tabitha Keroche as Deputy Majority Leader, with Nominated Senator Veronica Maina taking her place in a fresh shake-up of the ruling United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party&#8217;s leadership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">In a communication to the House on Wednesday, Speaker Amason Kingi said the changes followed a resolution by the Majority Party to remove Keroche and elect Maina to the position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Kingi told Senators that he had received correspondence dated November 3 from Senate&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611040539.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 The Senate has confirmed the removal of Tabitha Keroche as Deputy Majority Leader, with Nominated Senator Veronica Maina taking her place in a fresh shake-up of the ruling United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party&#8217;s leadership. In a communication to the House on Wednesday, Speaker Amason Kingi said the changes followed a resolution by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":249089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,6012,6520,26259,4688,430,14708,7079,15759,257,8115,254,38657],"class_list":["post-249088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deputy","tag-drops","tag-installs","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-keroche","tag-leader","tag-maina","tag-news","tag-senate","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uda"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/249088","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=249088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}