Apparently MPs gave themselves 60 days from February 23 to complete the land Bills, so must pass them this week – haunted as they are by the totally unrealistic spectre of the Chief Justice telling them to go home early for having failed to implement the Constitution. Having listened to various civil society organisations at Bunge – which to be fair they did patiently and with apparent sympathy – travelled around the ...

The CIC has painstakingly studied the various Acts passed by Parliament in the mad rush to meet the deadline of August 27 for enacting various new laws. It has made a number of criticisms of those laws, including of the Elections Act. You can read their comments in their Third Quarterly Report on their website site at http://cickenya.org/.My own first concern is about the party list system intended to ensure representation of various marginali...

The Bill to amend the Constitution has been published, providing for extra seats to ensure that there are no more than two-thirds from either gender in the National Assembly or Senate. This is similar to the CoE’s suggestion, rejected by the Parliamentary Select Committee in Naivasha. Like the provision for counties in fact.Many Kenyans are fearful that any amendment will be just the thin end of the wedge that might eventually crack open...

The press says that the Bill to amend the Constitution has been published (published? – the Government bookshop does not have it, nor so the websites of the CIC, Law Reform Commission and State Law Office). We are told that it provides for extra seats to ensure that there are no more than two-thirds from either gender in the National Assembly or Senate.  This sounds most like the CoE’s suggestion, rejected by the Parliamen...