Speaker Rules On Three Vacant Seats

[The Star] House Speaker Kenneth Marende has said three parliamentary seats will be declared vacant only after a pending law is assented to. Marende said he will only declare Ndhiwa, Kajiado North and Kangema vacant after the Statute Law (Miscellanous Amendment) is assented to by the President. Marende said yesterday there is no law to warrant by-elections after the National Assembly and Presidential Elections Act was repealed by the Election Act 2011 passed last year. "The Election Act repealed the National Assembly