[VIDEO] Cord MPs vow to block Speaker Muturi from entering the chambers

Police officers along Harambee Avenue Photo/Sam Kisika
Police officers along Harambee Avenue Photo/Sam Kisika

Cord MPs have vowed to block National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi from accessing the Chambers to discuss the Tuesday's special sitting business.

The opposition legislators were on Tuesday furious over attempts to amend the negotiated elections laws to allow for manual voting in 2017 if electronic voting fails.

The MPs are also angry because Cord leadership in the House including Minority leader Francis Nyenze, his deputy Jakoyo Midiwo and Whips such as Chris Wamalwa and Thomas Mwadeghu were not consulted about Tuesday's sitting as per the law.

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The Speaker, Jubilee leadership in the House including Majority leader Aden Duale and Cord leadership in the House including Senate Minority leader Moses Wetang'ula are currently in a meeting to find the way forward.

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Cord MPs have maintained that no amendment can be made on the negotiated elections laws because they were barred from amending the Bills by "even a comma" during the passage in October.

"We cannot use the backdoor to amend the negotiated laws. Amendments can only be done through negotiation," Makueni MP Dan Maanzo said.

"This needy greedy plot by Jubilee to rig elections in 2017 cannot be allowed," Embakasi South MP Irshad Sumra said.

The opposition has raised fears that changing the law to allow manual voting will lead to rigging of elections on grounds the "dead" will also vote.

The MPs have said they will only accept a Kamukunji with the Speaker in Tuesday's sitting but not the scheduled business.

They also say it will be illegal to reconvene the sitting after the disruption. It was to kick off at 9am as gazetted.

Mbita MP Millie Odhiambo said Jubilee has already sensed defeat and they will not allow President Uhuru Kenyatta to take "us back to Egypt where we came from."

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