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AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> A sharp division has emerged among ODM MPs over a push to effect amendments to the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2020 in Parliament.<\/p>\n

Some insiders confided in the\u00a0Sunday Standard\u00a0that there were divisions within ODM leader Raila Odinga\u2019s camp, with some lawmakers faulting contents of the Bill, especially on proposed creation of 70 constituencies where they claim Luo Nyanza region was shortchanged.<\/p>\n

Raila even reportedly called ODM Chairman John Mbadi and Elections Director Junet Mohammed to rally members in the National Assembly to back the Bill in its totality.<\/p>\n

The party is divided into a wing of radicals pushing for the Bill to be tabled in Parliament without any amendments made to it and one that supports changes. The first wing is led by Junet and Mbadi.<\/p>\n

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The lawmakers are for the idea that the Bill should be tabled in Parliament and dispensed with as soon as possible so that the country can go to a referendum.<\/p>\n

Limited role<\/strong><\/p>\n

The two diverging positions that the party has taken on the Bill was apparent as the House debated adding the joint Justice and Legal Affairs Committee more time to compile the report before it is tabled in parliament as the Bill goes to a second reading.<\/p>\n

While Junet and Mbadi were against the idea of the Bill going another week before it is tabled, other colleagues such as Kisumu West MP Olago Aluoch, Jared Okelo (Nyando), TJ Kajwang (Ruaraka), Peter Kaluma (Homa Bay Town) and Siaya Senator James Orengo supported giving the joint committee more time to consider public views.<\/p>\n

TJ said Parliament had a duty under article 95 and 96 to re-look the Bill.<\/p>\n

\u201cI get worried when I hear members speak as if they are not members of this House. When you say you are ceremonial yet the constitution has Articles 94, 95 and 96,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will deal with it as National Assembly, we have a voice. How we deal with this thing is what we have charged the committee to let us know. So you can\u2019t say we are ceremonial, you cannot speak politics when we are speaking parliamentary language,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Orengo led the ODM charge in the Senate to have the committee take another week to finalise on the report.<\/p>\n

He said Parliament played a limited role during the 2010 constitutional process and the same should not happen now.<\/p>\n

Garissa Township MP Aden Duale suggested that part of the unease with the BBI in Parliament had to do with ODM\u2019s uncertainty about having Raila as Uhuru\u2019s successor in next year\u2019s polls.<\/p>\n

But Okelo felt there was meddling in the process.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll MPs subscribe to political parties that took their views before several committees, so to interfere at this point in time feeds into what we were told that there were members of the Executive out to meddle with the affairs of this constitution making process and we reject that kind of move,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Orengo, while denying there was any attempt to hijack the BBI process as Okello claimed, gave the clearest indication yet that Parliament would seek to assert itself in the process.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the Constitution of Kenya Bill went through the experts wasn\u2019t it brought to Parliament? It was and the House debated it and proposed amendments. Therefore, it is not something that you can wish away,\u201d said the senator.<\/p>\n

Nasa coalition yesterday had a Parliamentary Group meeting at Parliament grounds and some of the discussions revolved around the joint committee.<\/p>\n

Shortchanged<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some members want the document amended by Parliament and feel especially shortchanged by the allocation of constituencies to counties.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my view, Parliament is not a voting machine, it has a duty to the people so the when there is an issue before it the people will want to hear what Parliament says about it,\u201d said Orengo.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a precedent which was established by the same committee of experts which came out with this provision. What Parliament does about it the Constitution has already spelled out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Homa Bay Senator Moses Kajwang, speaking on KTN News, denied any concerns within ODM concerning the Bill, but indicated that his county should have gotten two additional constituencies.<\/p>\n

\u201cODM fully supports the BBI. I have two constituencies that are really vast, Ndhiwa and Karachuonyo that should have been split,\u201d said Kajwang.<\/p>\n

Mbadi said Parliament has little role on the passage of the Bill and therefore cannot effect any changes as stipulated in Article 257 of the Constitution.<\/p>\n

He differed with Orengo on the process by CoE that tabled a report in Parliament to make amendments.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven the Naivasha deliberations were not implemented because the House failed to raise the two-thirds requirement,\u201d said Mbadi.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should not seek changes for political expediency. We cannot circumvent the law. Parliament role is zero. If we are unhappy we can initiate another amendment later.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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