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THE STANDARD By Ken Opalo | January 30th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300 President Uhuru Kenyatta interacts with Members of County Assemblies (MCA's) from Central Kenya region at Sagana State Lodge, Nyeri County. [PSCU] President Uhuru Kenyatta is having major problems in his political “backyard.” On Thursday, legislators from the wider Mt Kenya region penned a letter in which they outlined grievances against the Jubilee administration. The most pressing of their grievances included concerns about the state of the economy, the public health crisis due to Covid-19, and the government’s appa...

IEBC Issues Verdict on BBI Signatures 26 January 2021 - 5:58 pm IEBC Chairperson Wafula Chebukati at the commission's office at Anniversary Towers in Nairobi in June 2017. Twitter The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission has approved 1.14 million signatures in the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) bill. This is out of the 4.2 million signatures submitted by the BBI secretariat team on December 10, 2020. In a notice dated Tuesday, January 26, IEBC Chairperson Wafula Chebukati affirmed that the initiative surpassed the threshold needed to proceed to the next stage. IEBC Chairperson ...

Eyes on county assemblies as IEBC clears BBI Bill Wednesday January 27 2021 President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Prime Minister display a copy of BBI Report during the presentation at Kisii State Lodge. PHOTO | PSCU By EDWIN MUTAI The IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati submitted to the 47 counties the BBI draft Bill for approval.  It will require two thirds or 24 counties to approve the Bill before Kenyans can take a vote to approve or reject it in a referendum. Mr Chebukati said the commission, through an interim verification of data captured as of January 19, 2021, has confirmed that the initia...

ad nauseum during the week of waiting that followed Kenya’s 2013 general elections. In ads published in the run-up to the 2013 elections by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), people were told to vote, go home and accept the results. Encouraged by a state that had since the 2007 post-electoral violence dominated public discourse and means of coercion, the military pitched camp in polling stations. Many streets in Kenya’s cities and towns remained deserted for days after the polls closed. According to Ngunyi, the winner of the 2013 elections had been known four mont...

Uhuru-Odinga Constitution Review Initiative Rejected By ICJ Published 3 months ago 0share The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) on Thursday declared its rejection of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) Referendum Bill in totality saying the proposed amendments to the constitution will not offer solutions to the country’s social, economic and political problems. The Commission’s Chairperson Kelvin Mogeni challenged BBI proponents focus on ensuring that the Constitution promulgated in 2010 is implemented instead of amending it. “There is no guarantee that the proposed amendment...