{"id":8431,"date":"2020-05-25T19:32:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T19:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=8431"},"modified":"2020-05-25T19:32:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T19:32:38","slug":"aukot-plans-to-present-punguza-mizigo-kenya-bill-to-iebc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/aukot-plans-to-present-punguza-mizigo-kenya-bill-to-iebc","title":{"rendered":"Aukot plans to present Punguza Mizigo Kenya bill to IEBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> The Thirdway Alliance Party is next week expected to submit its Punguza Mizigo Kenya (PMK) Bill after getting more than one million signatures to support its bid to amend the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The Ekuru Aukot\u00a0<em>(above)<\/em>-led team is planning to submit its Bill and the requisite signatures ahead of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) team.The move aims to get in ahead of President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga, who are championing the law change through the BBI process.<\/p>\n<p>On March 18, Thirdway Alliance launched its second attempt to amend the Constitution under a new initiative dubbed PMK.A source familiar with the process but who sought anonymity for fear of reprisal told africa-press\u00a0that the signatures collected to endorse the Bill were secured online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe initiative has received more than the required numbers to meet the constitutional threshold,\u201d the source said.In the last three months, the party has been pushing for online signature endorsements as it worked on the Bill.Further, while the BBI proposal envisages a complete overhaul of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission\u2019s (IEBC) commissioners and secretariat, the PMK Bill takes a softer stand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hatched a plot<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The source further said Aukot has been warming up to Deputy President William Ruto.\u201cSome politicians, especially those supporting the DP, are uncomfortable with BBI proposals and have hatched a plot to help Aukot\u2019s Bill outwit the BBI process. It is a race against time,\u201d said the source.<\/p>\n<p>However, Aukot dismissed this idea, but acknowledged that Ruto and his allies have been speaking out against BBI but have not come up with an alternative suggestion.\u201cRuto and others have been opposed to BBI but they don\u2019t have any proposal.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s only Aukot who has come up with a Bill on how to address the challenges facing our country,\u201d said Aukot.He claimed that during Punguza Migizo I, the State spent Sh1.5 billion to prevent MCAs from supporting the document.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI only used Sh14.5 million from Kenyans, yet they spent Sh1.5\u00a0billion to fight me. I am independent and working independently, devoid of any political patronage,\u201d said Aukot.\u201cWe took into account the comments we got from the 29 counties we visited.<\/p>\n<p>We have only been taken aback by the Covid-19 pandemic. 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