- The Bomas team also received 121 submissions through email by the deadline.
- Both Kenya Kwanza and Azimio amps are represented in the 10-member National Dialogue Committee by five members apiece.
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Political Analyst Herman Manyora has opined that National Dialogue talks between the government and the Opposition have brought peace to the country.
Speaking on Wednesday during an interview with TV47, he added that the peace achieved is temporal.
"The only thing that we have achieved with these Bomas talks and we appreciate all those who made this possible is peace. It may be temporary but we have achieved it."
Prior to the talks, Manyora claimed that the country might have headed in the wrong direction.
"If we had continued the same way, this country would have collapsed by now. So to that extent, we must celebrate these talks."
However, Manyora claimed that the talks cannot go beyond achieving anything other than the peace we have now.
Both Kenya Kwanza and Azimio camps are represented in the 10-member National Dialogue Committee by five members apiece.
The government side is led by National Assembly majority leader Kimani Ichung'wah and has Senate Majority leader Aaron Cheruiyot, Cecil Mbarire, Hassan Omar, and Catherine Wambilianga.
Azimio's side includes Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka, Minority leader Opiyo Wandayi, DAP-K leader Eugene Wamalwa, Nyamira Senator Okon'go Omogeni and Malindi MP Amina Mnyazi.
The panel listed five broader issues for discussion which include the electoral justice agenda (reconstitution of IEBC, audit of 2022 presidential election, and boundaries delimitation).
Others are the cost of living, fidelity to the Political Parties Act, Coalitions, and laws on multiparty democracy.
The entrenchment of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) into the Constitution and National Government Affirmative Action Fund will be discussed as agenda four.
The entrenchment into the Constitution of the offices of the Leader of the Official Opposition and the Prime Cabinet Secretary has been listed as agenda item number five.
So far, the committee has received 142 memoranda from members of the public.
These, alongside the five already identified agenda items, will inform the issues the team chaired by Ichung’wah and Musyoka will be deliberating on in the next 42 days.
As of September 10, which was the deadline for making submissions, the committee had received 29 submissions hand-delivered at Parliament Buildings.
Some five memoranda were also hand-delivered at the Bomas of Kenya, where the committee sits.
The Bomas team also received 121 submissions through email by deadline.
The team is expected to wind up the talks after 60 days.