{"id":25467,"date":"2021-04-06T20:14:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T20:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/?p=25467"},"modified":"2021-04-06T20:16:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T20:16:00","slug":"kigano-bbi-bill-was-popular-initiative-wont-be-amended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/kigano-bbi-bill-was-popular-initiative-wont-be-amended","title":{"rendered":"Kigano: BBI Bill was popular initiative, won\u2019t be amended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> The National Assembly\u2019s Legal Affairs Committee Chairperson Muturi Kigano has allayed fears that a joint Parliamentary Committee will introduce major amendments to the BBI Bill.<\/p>\n<p>Kigano, who co-chairs the joint committee with Nyamira Senator Okongo Omogeni, which is currently going through the Constitutional Amendment Bill after parliamentary public participation, said this is despite hiring two experts to help them wade through the constitutional amendment framework.<\/p>\n<p>He said MPs cannot amend the Bill since it was a popular initiative emanating from the people. \u201cAmending the BBI Bill would offend Article 257 of the Constitution, which explains the process of referendum proposal by means of popular initiative,\u201d he said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the BBI proposal fell squarely under the popular initiative since it has two promoters\u00a0&#8211; Junet Mohammed and Dennis Waweru.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe issue on whether Parliament votes for or against the Bill is superfluous because either way the Bill must be subjected to referendum,\u201d said Kigano.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-article-page-desktop my-2\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1498022554617-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to veteran lawyer and reformist, the Bill will automatically find its way to referendum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne cannot usurp powers of the people and try to seek an amendment of the BBI Bill. Parliament lacks that mandate since over one million Kenyans owned the report by appending their signatures\u00a0and the over 24 County Assemblies have approved it,\u201d Kigano added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Kenya: The National Assembly\u2019s Legal Affairs Committee Chairperson Muturi Kigano has allayed fears that a joint Parliamentary Committee will introduce major amendments to the BBI Bill. Kigano, who co-chairs the joint committee with Nyamira Senator Okongo Omogeni, which is currently going through the Constitutional Amendment Bill after parliamentary public participation, said this is despite hiring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":25468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12],"tags":[235,8119,8120],"class_list":["post-25467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-bbi","tag-legal-affairs-committee-c","tag-muturi-kigano"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kigano: BBI Bill was popular initiative, won\u2019t be amended - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The National Assembly\u2019s Legal Affairs Committee Chairperson Muturi Kigano has allayed fears that a joint Parliamentary Committee\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/kigano-bbi-bill-was-popular-initiative-wont-be-amended\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kigano: BBI Bill was popular initiative, won\u2019t be amended\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The National Assembly\u2019s Legal Affairs Committee Chairperson Muturi Kigano has allayed fears that a joint Parliamentary Committee\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/kigano-bbi-bill-was-popular-initiative-wont-be-amended\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-04-06T20:14:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-04-06T20:16:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2021\/04\/kigano_bbi_bill_was606b589ce9d50.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"533\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/kigano-bbi-bill-was-popular-initiative-wont-be-amended#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/kigano-bbi-bill-was-popular-initiative-wont-be-amended\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Kigano: BBI Bill was popular initiative, won\u2019t be amended\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-04-06T20:14:05+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-04-06T20:16:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/kigano-bbi-bill-was-popular-initiative-wont-be-amended\"},\"wordCount\":225,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/kigano-bbi-bill-was-popular-initiative-wont-be-amended#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2021\/04\/kigano_bbi_bill_was606b589ce9d50.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"BBI\",\"Legal Affairs Committee C\",\"Muturi Kigano\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/kigano-bbi-bill-was-popular-initiative-wont-be-amended#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/kigano-bbi-bill-was-popular-initiative-wont-be-amended\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/kigano-bbi-bill-was-popular-initiative-wont-be-amended\",\"name\":\"Kigano: BBI Bill was popular initiative, won\u2019t be amended - 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