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Kenya is firmly on the road to a referendum on the new constitution after more than 24 County assemblies passed the Constitution amendment bill paving the way for the mini plebiscite, a key agreement of the political truce between President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga.

THE STANDARD Members of public celebrate after Kiambu County Assembly passed the BBI Bill, yesterday. [George Njunge, Standard] The possibility of Kenya going to a referendum became clear yesterday after the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) Bill reached the 24-county constitutional threshold. In what has now been dubbed ‘Super Tuesday,’ at least 38 counties had by last evening passed the Constitution of Kenya (amendment) Bill, 2020.  Baringo is the only assembly that has so far rejected the Bill. A section of MCAs have moved to court to challenge the manner in which the exercise was co...

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The government had tabled the 26th Constitution Amendment Bill in the National Assembly on Feb 3 without trying to take the opposition on board. — APP/File ISLAMABAD: Following the directive of Speaker Asad Qaiser, the government is set to lay the controversial Senate open vote ordinance before the National Assembly on Monday (today) when the lower house will go into session after a two-day recess. The agenda issued for Monday’s sitting by the National Assembly Secretariat shows that the 26th Constitution Amendment Bill, 2021, which the government had tabled in the assembly earlier this m...

The session has been called at a time when a presidential reference on the same subject is still being heard by the Supreme Court and the Senate elections are merely two weeks away. — DawnNewsTV/File ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani has convened a session of the upper house of parliament on Saturday morning (Feb 20) on the requisition of the opposition on a one-point agenda to discuss the controversial presidential ordinance promulgated by the government on Feb 6, seeking open Senate vote. The session has been called at a time when a presidential reference on the same subject is st...