Violence rocked the floor of the National Assembly on Thursday afternoon after Speaker Moses Wetangula controversially declared Kenya Kwanza coalition the majority party.

Wetangula issued the ruling before the 13th Parliament to resolve the row over the majority status between Kenya Kwanza alliance and Azimio La Umoja One Kenya coalition party.


However, moments after declaring President William Ruto’s Kenya Kwanza the majority in the August House, a section of Azimio MPs protested on the floor by engaging in heckling.

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Efforts by the Speaker to restore order proved futile for a while as Azimio lawmakers expressed their displeasure while their Kenya Kwanza colleagues celebrated the decree.


Parliamentary orderlies were forced to come in urgently to separate the members of the two warring coalitions who had escalated matters from a war of words to fists and kicks.

Speaker Wetangula was forced to adjourn the Parliamentary sittings prematurely to next week Tuesday, October 11, 2022 at 2:30pm to allow for the political heat to die down.


Azimio MPs could be heard booing and hurling insults at Wetangula as he made his way out of the House while heavily guarded by the orderlies to avert any further chaotic incidences.