Jubilee Coalition’s Ekwe Ethuro has been elected speaker of the Senate. Ethuro was elected speaker with 38 beat Cord coalition’s Farah Maalim who garnered 29 voters in a run off. Sixty seven senators cast their votes for speaker after Ethuro and Maalim failed to garner a 2/3rds majority in the first round. In the first round of voting Ethuro garnered 35 votes while Maalim came second with 31 votes.
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