Jubilee MPs are this morning meeting at State House.
The purpose of the meeting is to decide on its nominees to East African Legislative Assembly (EALA).
Also, they will put together the party’s committee membership list.
Majority Whip Benjamin Washiali said they are doing everything possible to ensure they elect EALA MPs and forward committee membership list before going to recess on Thursday evening.
“After we have finalized a report of the party, we’ll submit it to the Committee on Selection and hopefully that committee will approve it for presentation to the House,” he told Daily Nation.
Earlier, Leader of Majority in Parliament Aden Duale had asked the Speaker of the National Assembly Justin Muturi not to permit any local or foreign travel to MPs until EALA MPs are elected.
There is a rush for all 349 members of the House to be placed in committees. A lot of lobbying has been going on.
Energy, Transport, Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and Budget committees are the most popular and scores are jostling to be placed in them.
For the opposition however, placement of its members to Parliamentary committees has been a tricky balancing act according to Minority Whip Junet Mohammed.
For example, 45 MPs had expressed their willingness to be part of the Transport Committee and a further 20 interested in the Energy Committee.
For the 23-member Public Investment Committee, there were 25 opposition MPs clamouring for membership while in the Public Accounts Committee, 35 of them expressed willingness.
Washiali said each MP expresses interest in the committee he wants to be in depending on what he wants delivered to his people.
“As an MP, you have to fight for something that will benefit your people and that if you are in the National Assembly would be roads. That’s why you see Transport committee is the most popular, said the Mumias East MP.
MPs were asked to indicate their preferred committees when they registered in Parliament after August 8 polls.