Majority Leader Aden Duale on Thursday addressed alleged plans to impeaching National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi after chaos rocked parliament during the Finance Bill deliberations.
The Garissa Township Member of Parliament dared his colleagues to impeach Muturi exuding confidence that such a move would be unsuccessful.
The calls to ouster the Speaker came after controversy and chaos marred the greatly awaited 8% VAT amendment debate.
Majority of the outspoken legislators had indicated that they would shoot down President Uhuru Kenyatta's 8% VAT proposal on petroleum products in favour of zero rate on the precious commodity.
True to the assertion, the MPs turned up in large numbers during the voting on Uhuru's memorandum.
However, the voting by acclamation turned out controversial after the interim speaker ruled that those in support of the proposal had won despite a resounding "no" from the parliamentarians.
The controversial ruling saw disgruntled MPs take to the floor of the House chanting "Bado mapambano (the struggle continues)", wasaliti (traitors) and "Duale must go".
When Speaker Muturi who had taken a break went back to the floor of the House, the MPs raised concern over the irregularities in the voting.
He equally pointed out his shock that the National Assembly screens displayed that there were 352 MPs in the chamber at one point despite Kenya having only 349 MPs.
Muturi brought a printed copy of the hansard record (the audio files of parliament's transactions) and upheld the earlier decision to veto the memorandum.
As the MPs continued occupying the parliament's floor in protest, Speaker Muturi carried out further voting which was marked by total disorder.
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Duale, the Majority Leader had to move the motions on his feet surrounded by close Jubilee MPs who voted and passed several amendments as the protests continued in parliament.
