By NATION CORRESPONDENT
Posted Wednesday, August 31 2011 at 22:43
Posted Wednesday, August 31 2011 at 22:43
The Leader of Government Business in Parliament is Thursday expected to brief the House on the fate of the moribund committee on Justice and Legal Affairs.
The House Business Committee, which draws up Parliament’s agenda agreed at a meeting on Tuesday evening that Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka (below) briefs Parliament Thursday afternoon on the team’s decision to have the committee reconstituted.
Insiders said that Joint Government Whips Jakoyo Midiwo (ODM) and PNU’s Johnstone Muthama had agreed that the committee be reconstituted.
This is likely to happen by next week.
However, Mr Muthama has said PNU is fine with its members in the team and will not replace them.
Githunguri MP Njoroge Baiya told the Nation the HBC’s agreement would likely amount to nothing unless concrete action is taken to have the committee back in place.
Mr Baiya was the vice chairman of the team once headed by Budalang’i MP Ababu Namwamba, whose party, ODM, announced that it had withdrawn all its members.
The controversy that tore the 11-member committee arose from attempts by a majority, from PNU and ODM rebels, to throw out Mr Namwamba as chairman.
Consequently, ODM announced the withdrawal of its members from the committee.
The party also does not want the rebels, Isaac Ruto, the Chepalungu MP and Nominated MP Sophia Abdi as its representatives in the committee.
The two are still likely to reject their removal.
Mr Ruto raised the matter in Parliament last Tuesday and asked what had prevented the committee from meeting to elect a chairman yet the Liaison Committee had asked it to do so.
Mr Kimunya told MPs that the matter would be discussed at the HBC meeting later Tuesday.
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