Photo/AFP/FILE President Kibaki displays the new Constitution at a ceremony to inaugurate it on August 27, 2010.
By NATION REPORTER (newsdesk@ke.nationmedia.com)
Posted Thursday, August 18 2011 at 16:35
Posted Thursday, August 18 2011 at 16:35
Kenya’s one-year-old Constitution is set for its first change after President Kibaki's Cabinet resolved on Thursday that one of its key tenets was technically impossible to achieve.
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The Constitution stipulates that at least one third of elected Members of Parliament be of either gender. The electoral commission has been struggling with ways to structure rules so as to conform to the law.
The Cabinet meeting, unusually sitting for the second time in a week, was chaired by President Kibaki.
A dispatch from the Presidential Press Service (PPS) following the meeting said: "With regard to the requirement for one third representation in Parliament by either gender, Cabinet decided to set up a task force to prepare a Constitution amendment bill to deal with this important requirement that is technically impossible to achieve under the current stipulation."
Section 81 (b) of the Constitution provides that not more than two-thirds of the members of elective public bodies shall be of the same gender.
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We should not allow the few to determine what the majority voted for. We would need another referrendum to change a clause
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