The National Assembly is on Tuesday afternoon expected to consider whether to suspend its sittings following the new curfew and travel restrictions issued by President Uhuru Kenyatta on Friday in a bid to tame the fast-spreading Covid-19.

National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi has, in a statement, convened Members of Parliament (MPs) for a sitting on Tuesday 2:30pm to “conclude any urgent business.”

Thereafter, MPs are expected to consider a motion to alter the August House’s calendar, this believed to mean that MPs might consider taking a break to help reduce Coronavirus spread.

The House Business Committee, the team that handles and schedules all matters to be discussed in Parliament, will meet ahead of the sitting to determine the priority of business.

Speaker Muturi has, in that regard, ordered the National Assembly Clerk to make all necessary arrangements to ensure all MPs are allowed unrestricted travel to Nairobi for the sitting.

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A number of MPs are said to be among thousands of Kenyans who are battling Covid-19 as the pandemic’s more visious third wave threatens to grind the livelihoods of majority of Kenyans to a halt.