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MPs fail to pass gender rule despite President’s plea

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April 28, 2016
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Jomvu MP Badi Twalib (R) calls on colleagues to enter Parliament’s Chamber yesterday during the vote on the two-thirds gender rule bill / HEZRON NJOROGE

MPs fail to pass gender rule despite President’s plea

MPs yesterday failed to pass a crucial bill to effect the two-thirds gender rule, despite a passionate appeal from President Uhuru Kenyatta.

“I call upon all our members to vote for this bill. We need to pass this bill into law to comply with the constitutional provisions on the composition of elective offices in Kenya. The people of Kenya are waiting to see you make history this afternoon,” Uhuru said in a statement ahead of the voting.

But the lawmakers failed to make history and did not enact the enabling legislation to ensure equitable gender representation in Parliament.

In a day of haggling and intense lobbying by women MPs preceded by a dinner hosted in honour of their men counterparts to appease them to pass the bill, only 195 MPs voted in its support, despite 242 members being present.

Women MPs under their KEWOPA caucus had on Tuesday hosted the men in a special dinner at Hotel Intercontinental to lobby for their support.

But when voting time came yesterday, 28 MPs voted against the bill while 19 two abstained.

Speaker Justin Muturi ruled MPs will vote again next Thursday after those who voted against the bill failed to raise a one-third minority requisite in objecting to a constitutional bill.

The bill stipulates that one cannot be nominated for a special seat for more than two terms.

It says the provision for the special seats will lapse 20 years after the 2017 elections.

The constitution does not stipulate the formula through which the two-thirds principle should be achieved.

It leaves it to the state to put in place a law for the purpose.

The bill introduces new clauses to Articles 97 and 98 to alter the composition of the National Assembly and the Senate.

“The composition of the National Assembly (Senate) comprises the number of special seat members necessary to ‎ensure no more than two-thirds of the membership of the National Assembly (Senate) is of the same gender,” the clause says.

The bill also introduces new clauses to Articles 97 and 98 to ensure the special seats are allocated proportionate to the number of seats won by a political party, determined after a general election.

Majority leader Aden Duale urged the Speaker to allow the vote to be retaken after five sittings as provided for in the standing orders.

“What we are doing is historic in the sense that we will achieve what the ninth and the 10th Parliaments could not achieve. The 11th Parliament will go down in history as the House that has implemented the constitution. This is one of the pieces that will complete the implementation of the constitution,” he said.

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