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On High Stakes Political Party Nominations

21 Jan 2013 Loise Mwakamba

When one reads the definition of political party nominations, political party nominations seem pretty innocuous: it’s the process that political parties use to select a …

Blog

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

18 Jan 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 …

News

On the Treasury’s Release of Sh10 billion for CDF 2 months to the Election

7 Jan 2013 Loise Mwakamba

By now we are probably all aware of the fact that the Treasury released 10.1 billion shillings to CDF boards for the completion of pending …

Blog

On the Continual Extension of dates for Party Hopping

3 Jan 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 …

Blog

On Political Coalitions

21 Dec 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 …

Blog

On Parliament: Lack of Quorum, Representation and Pending Business

17 Dec 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

14 Dec 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 …

Blog

Should Aspirants with Pending Court Cases Run in the Elections?

10 Dec 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 …

Blog

On the New Traffic Laws

6 Dec 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 …

News

On the Low Voter Registration Turnout

3 Dec 2012 Loise Mwakamba

The voter registration turnout has been low, in fact worryingly so, are eligible voters indifferent, disinterested, apathetic or is there is deeper reason for the …

Blog

How Prepared are we for the Next Election?

27 Nov 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 …

Blog

An ICC Presidency?

23 Nov 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 …