Category: Politics
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The History of Speakers of Parliament (Senate and National Assembly)
As the leader(s) of one arm of government, the Speakers of the National Assembly and the Senate are so crucial considering the two Houses cannot transact any business without a Speaker.
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The Work of the Senate and the National Assembly
On 27 August 2010, a new constitution was promulgated by the third President of Kenya, the late Mwai Kibaki and with it came a bicameral system of parliament. Between 1966 and 2012 when the tenth parliament was dissolved ushering in the new system, Kenya’s parliament operated as a unicameral legislature—one house chamber with 210 elected…
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The History of The Kenyan Parliament
Kenya’s parliament traces its roots back to pre-colonial Kenya. In 1906, the Legislative Council (LegCo) was established by the colonial government and sat for the first time in August 1907 – all members being white.
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The Presidential Petition Timelines
By 2 p.m. on 22 August 2022 – being the final day and hour when filings to the Supreme Court would be made against the declaration of William Ruto as president-elect – nine petitions had been submitted, with the requisite fee of KSh 1 million paid.
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Intrigues of Past Presidential Petitions
As Kenya’s litigants promise fireworks in the upcoming presidential petition hearings, we thought to dig through history books and dust out some of the defining moments of previous presidential petitions.
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The Observers’ Verdict Is Out
About 18,000 local and international observers were accredited by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to monitor polling stations in the 290 constituencies around the country, ahead of the 9 August polls. 1300 of them were international observers, from a cross-section of regional and occidental election observer missions. The most notable were the East…
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What It Means To Be President-Elect
“Upon the declaration of the final results of a presidential election by the Commission under Article 138 of the Constitution and section 39 of the Elections Act (No. 24 of 2011), the Committee shall ensure that the president-elect and deputy president-elect are accorded adequate security,” reads an excerpt from the Assumption of Office of the…
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The Role of the Assumption of the Office of President Committee
In the event that Deputy President William Ruto’s declaration as president-elect is not challenged at the Supreme Court, Ruto will be sworn in as president on Tuesday 30 August 2022, fourteen days after the declaration of presidential results. Thereafter, a month from the date of the swearing-in of the president-elect, the Committee will wind up…
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Uhuru Kenyatta’s Temporary Incumbency
According to Article 134 of the Constitution, temporary incumbency of the President occurs “during the period commencing on the date of the first vote in a presidential election, and ending when the newly elected President assumes office.”
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Pale Bomas
You think you’re anxious? Just ask Raila Odinga or William Ruto. (But it looks like IEBC are on it?)