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Fresh two thirds gender rule bid goes before Senate

Attorney General Githu Muigai expressed confidence that the motion will sail through both Houses of Parliament though downplaying the urgency of the process saying the time remaining to implement it is sufficient.

“I am very cautiously optimistic that tomorrow maybe the turning point that we require but I do not foresee a constitutional crisis of any nature. This issue comes to a crunch when the election kicks in so that in principal we still would have one more year to work around it,” he pointed out.

The AG stated that the Senate Bill largely mirrors the aspirations of the government sponsored intervention through the Duale Bill save for slight variations in form and structure.

“The Ministry of Public Service, Youth and Gender Affairs with whom we are in partnership, will hereafter outline the additional legislative and other measures that will further buttress women’s political participation interventions,” he said.

He pointed out that the government is committed to implementation of the principle, not only in the pursuit of constitutional compliance, but in the genuine conviction that empowering women is key to the development of the nation.

“I am therefore proud to associate myself with the continued transformative movement to build a sustainable architecture for women’s political participation through the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2015 (Senate Bill No. 16 of 2015) popularly known as the Sijeny Bill coming for debate in the Senate,” he stated.

The law is meant to balance the composition of elective offices in Kenya to ensure there is equity in the government by not allowing one gender to hold more than two-thirds of elective positions.

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