Blogs and Opinions

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Have You Been Registered As a Member of a Political Party without Your Knowledge?

January 18, 2013 Loise Mwakamba

In order for a political party to be registered, the Political Parties Act, 2011 requires that said party have at least 1000 registered members in …

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On the Continual Extension of dates for Party Hopping

January 3, 2013 Loise Mwakamba

The Elections Act 2011 required that parties submit their party lists, and nominees for elected posts to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission three months …

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On Political Coalitions

December 21, 2012 Loise Mwakamba

Having an executive president makes the stakes in the race for presidency necessarily high. The stakes are made even higher by the impending cases against …

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On Parliament: Lack of Quorum, Representation and Pending Business

December 17, 2012 Loise Mwakamba

Parliamentary attendance is woefully low. Last week at the beginning of the parliamentary session on Wednesday 5th only 13 out of a total of 222 …

Opinion

On the Supreme Court’s Majority Opinion on the One Third Gender Rule

December 14, 2012 Loise Mwakamba

How to implement the one third gender rule has been a problem that the government has grappled with for a while now. A few months …

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Should Aspirants with Pending Court Cases Run in the Elections?

December 10, 2012 Loise Mwakamba

Good news for those members of parliament and aspirants with the pending civil or criminal court cases. The Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission (EACC), established …

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On the New Traffic Laws

December 6, 2012 Loise Mwakamba

The New Traffic Amendment Act gazetted by the Minister for Transport, Amos Kimunya, took effect on Monday. 10 million shillings in traffic violation fines has …

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How Prepared are we for the Next Election?

November 27, 2012 Loise Mwakamba

By now I think most Kenyans are familiar with the statistics from the 2007/2008 post election violence, 1,500 people killed and more than 350,000 people …

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An ICC Presidency?

November 23, 2012 Loise Mwakamba

From news reports and from predictions from various pollsters it seems that while implausible it is not impossible that we could have both a President …

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On the Possible Extension for the Formation of Pre-Election Political Party Alliances

November 19, 2012 Loise Mwakamba

Kenyans are no strangers to politicians shifting to and from one political party to another in the pre-election period. In the previous the elections it …

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On Killings of Police Officers in Baragoi

November 16, 2012 Loise Mwakamba

The attack on a patrol of police officers by cattle rustlers in Baragoi points starkly to the institutional weaknesses that exist within the police force. …

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Elections 2013: What Has Changed since 2007

November 12, 2012 Loise Mwakamba

Not so long ago Kenya was seen as a bastion of peace and stability in the region, with working institutions and a more or less …