Parliament during a past session. The House Business Committee has asked MPs to sit for long hours Tuesday as Parliament seeks to beat the Friday deadline by which preliminary laws to roll out the new Constitution should be enacted August 23, 2011. FILE
By ALPHONCE SHIUNDU ashiundu@ke.nationmedia.com
Posted Tuesday, August 23 2011 at 10:35
Posted Tuesday, August 23 2011 at 10:35
The House Business Committee has asked MPs to sit for long hours Tuesday as Parliament seeks to beat the Friday deadline by which preliminary laws to roll out the new Constitution should be enacted.
In Tuesday’s Order Paper (Parliament’s timetable), the government-led committee has also asked the lawmakers to reduce the time that some of the Bills have to be scrutinised by House committees from ten days to just five days.
It also seeks to reduce the publication period of four recently-published Bills from fourteen days to just four days.
If MPs agree with the HBC, the Bills- the Elections Bill, the Power of Mercy Bill, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission Bill and the Employment and Labour Relations Court Bill –will then be formally introduced into Parliament for the First Reading.
The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission Bill gets special treatment because there’s a proposal that it ought not be referred to House committees for scrutiny, but should proceed for debate and the debate concluded Tuesday.
The National Police Service Bill, the National Police Service Commission Bill and the Independent Policing Oversight Authority Bill will also be fast-tracked through debate Tuesday afternoon.
The political power play that has dogged the amendments to the Political Parties Bill, returns to Parliament, with House Speaker Kenneth Marende expected to rule on the constitutionality of some of the amendments that were approved last Tuesday.
The Speaker’s ruling will then give way to amendments to the Bill that has captured the attention of MPs, with most of them focused on the next elections.
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