My question is WHY?
isn’t that what the amendments seek to do??
Parliament has the constitutional mandate to LEGISLATE IN ACCORDANCE TO THE CONSTITUTION AND NOT ACCORDING TO OPINION BECAUSE OPINIONS VARY. Good example, you opine that they are legislating for the hell of it; I am of the opinion that those are timeous reforms. This argument should be based on the constitution and not opinions.
Another commissioner can be appointed on emergency hearing.
Same process used to elect Chebukati can be expedited. If not, a law can be passed then out of necessity.
Reforms are supposed to be inclusive.
Thus the public hearings
And at least 1 or 2 NASA yessers at this precious time. Any other time tyranny of numbers is okay to bulldoze a bill, like they did the interest rate caps.
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you are digging urself into a hole.
Theres no hole. Chebukati is here to stay. The country is bigger than him. There’s a process in the constitution to resolve all your worries without passing new laws.
I hate to break it to you but, the amendments are 100% in line with the constitution! In fact it only goes against standing orders when the MINORITY side is ACTIVELY not included; not when they refuse to join.
Now they refuse. But after the 26 they are ready. Timing is the essence. This is what I have stated all along. These Mps didn’t do reforms for 5 years, why Now?
The Constitution addresses the abscence of BOTH President and DP. We have no laws addressing the absence of Chebukati. If, for one reason or the other, Chebukati is not available to declare the winner of the Presidential election, CRISIS. We need to cover such loopholes. About the transparency, we have a court that will nullify the election if the VOTES are stolen. These REFORMS only seek to prevent nullification where the votes cast HAVE NOT BEEN STOLEN (in layman lingo)
So Majority wants to pass laws NOW, the minority wants to pass laws AFTER THE 26th. In your opinion; the MAJORITY should pass the laws AFTER THE 26th to please the MINORITY.
LAWS are passed and AMENDED when PARLIAMENT assesses a situation and qualifies it to merit AN AMENDMENT OF THE LAW; that is the constitutional mandate of parliament. The only REASON you have for suggesting we amend the laws later that THE MINORITY WANT IT SO. So here are my REASONS for supporting amendments NOW; THE MAJORITY WANT IT SO
Jana odm ceo norman magaya said unequivocally thate there will be no elections on the 26th. I think the ace up the sleeve for odm isn’t violence but chebukati. What happens if he resigns on the eve of elections, who is mandated to take over as the presidential returning officer?
I also think you are just digging yourself into a deeper hole.
A law can be passed quickly to expedite a chebukati replacement - this would actually be a matter of hours maximum 2 days but we cannot legislate in 20 days.
Come on. I think as someone who is in UOTP you are just afraid that with these ammendments you feel like you are being cornered.
That is the main intention. We cannot have two courts delivering contradicting each other. The high court telling Chebukati not to even change a decimal but the supreme court asking him why he did not verify the 34B yet he could not even alter them if he found an error…just stupidity.
Modern world. Replacement can be vetted and dispatched in a matter of hours. Plenty of good men around ( acceptable by both sides). As for the supreme court ruling, certain things baffle even me!!!However, Supreme court can supercede the High Court, cant they?
We both know that cannot happen. Someone will just go to court and say they did not follow due process. They did not provide enough time to allow people to be interviewed. I am sure you know how those processes are carried out.
On the matter of the Supreme Court superseding High court, very true. But that is not the case here. We have a court that basically set the law on how the IEBC would run the elections, results at constituency are final, they should not be altered, the IEBC chairman will only declare the results.
Then after all that has been followed, after the elections are done the supreme court nullifies the elections remarkably because chebukati did just that. That is why he did not wait for all 43A’s but waited for all 34B’s because he could not even alter them. His job was only to announce.
Why do you think Chebukati went back tot the supreme court to seek clarification over the verification matter?
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RAT has said no to all suggestions, reasons, advice because to him only himself counts and not surprisingly his supporters will argue the same to justify it. So don’t waste time arguing, its not a must they agree, accept or are happy. Let’s fulfill our mandate and carry on governing.
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I Reiterate that legislation and law reform are continuous processes. The law(s) need only address challenges and the needs of the day. All else is irrelevant.
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Law comes into being upon being approved by a majority of the members of parliament [by voting in favour of the proposed law]. Thereafter, the president assents to the law. The Law can still come into force with or without the president’s assent.
There is no law in Kenya; none whatsoever, that requires all or even “one player of the elections” to sign anywhere for a law to come in force.
Shut up and stop pretending to understand the matters under debate.