{"id":28124,"date":"2022-01-06T14:13:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T11:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=28124"},"modified":"2022-01-06T14:13:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T11:13:46","slug":"kenyan-mp-suspended-for-offering-sweets-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/06\/kenyan-mp-suspended-for-offering-sweets-in-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan MP Suspended For Offering Sweets in Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Kenyan MP was on Wednesday suspended from parliament for one day for distributing sweets to colleagues during a contentious debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fatuma Gedi said the &#8220;sugar levels of members had gone down&#8221; after the day-long session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She had been accused by colleague Ndindi Nyoro of distributing money as bribes in the floor of the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Nyoro was asked to substantiate his bribery allegations and was suspended for two days after he failed to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ms Gedi was suspended for a day for breaking house rules on conduct by distributing foodstuff in parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The MPs passed several amendments to the law on political parties ahead of this year&#8217;s general elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Kenyan MP was on Wednesday suspended from parliament for one day for distributing sweets to colleagues during a contentious debate. Fatuma Gedi said the &#8220;sugar levels of members had gone down&#8221; after the day-long session. She had been accused by colleague Ndindi Nyoro of distributing money as bribes in the floor of the house. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":28125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-28124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28126,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28124\/revisions\/28126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}