Gladys Boss Shollei won the Deputy Speaker race, the last key one of the day, to deliver victory for President-elect William Ruto's Kenya Kwanza Alliance in Thursday's key competitions for the highly coveted Speaker posts.
Ms Shollei won the race with 198 votes while her closest rival, Mr Farah Maalim, got 139 votes. While no candidate received the required number of votes from MPs, that is, two-thirds majority, Mr Maalim conceded defeat leading to Ms Shollei, a Kenya Kwanza candidate, being declared winner at about some minutes after 10pm Thursday.
