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Public Participation Bill 2025: A Sufficient Antidote for Public Engagement in Kenya?

Long before recent calls by Raila Odinga for a national conclave on intergenerational dialogue and the formation of a “broad-based government”, Kenya experienced a similar political arrangement. The political truce between the former Prime Minister and former President Uhuru Kenyatta, commonly referred to as the Handshake era, led to one of the most contentious outcomes […]...

After the death of BBI, the Finance Bill is the next battlefield

Every party took something from the judgement by the Supreme Court that ended the journey for the bid to amend the Constitution that started with the Building Bridges Initiative. Tho...

1 Apr 2022

Election Countdown: 129 day to go

Election timelines and activities Activity Timeline Resignation of public officers intending to vie for elective posts. 9th February, 2022 Political Parties to submit party membership lists to the I...

5 Nov 2021

BBI speaks from Purgatory

Kenyans were this week reminded of the Building Bridges Initiative in two ways. The first was the publication of a Bill to amend the Constitution being pushed by Kitui Senator Enoch Wambua. One ...

20 Aug 2021

Court of Appeal stops Reggae

Today a seven-member Court of Appeal bench dismissed the BBI appeal. The seven judges are Daniel Musinga, Fatuma Sichale, Gatembu Kairu, Hannah Okwengu, Roselyn Nambuye, Patrick Kiage and Francis Tuiy...

20 Aug 2021

After the BBI debacle, the new Opposition are happy

President Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga surprised many, their allies especially, when they reached a truce and marked it with The Handshake on the steps of Harambee House on March 9, 2018. Par...

2 Jul 2021

The Appeal done, BBI enters a race against time

The public phase of the appeal against the High Court decision that sought to end the Building Bridges Initiative has ended. There were two days in which the proponents of the Bill to amend the Consti...

4 Jun 2021

With tough choices made and explained, the President maintains focus

In the week he fired a broadside at the Judiciary, President Uhuru Kenyatta also dared the same arm of Government to what will be a long debate by appointing a section of the 41 judges he had refused ...

21 May 2021

After the disastrous judgement, BBI could be out of time

A week after five judges delivered a scathing verdict of the Building Bridges Initiative, President Uhuru Kenyatta is yet to make a statement on the matter. There has been plenty of sentiment from t...

13 May 2021

After Parliament, the BBI debate goes to Wanjiku

The Building Bridges Initiative gained more momentum this week with the approval from the Senate of its Bill to amend the Constitution. Proponents of the initiative have been counting their achievemen...

30 Apr 2021

BBI faces fresh political and legal headwinds

The desire by President Uhuru Kenyatta and Opposition Leader Raila Odinga to introduce constitutional amendments under the Building Bridges Initiative has run into new headwinds of a political and leg...

23 Apr 2021

Emerging issues threaten BBI in a real way

Emerging issues threaten BBI in a real way After a deadlock on whether they can amend the Bill to amend the Constitution, Parliament’s two committees scrutinizing the bid reported a farcical issue...

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