Nasa dewhipped or barred its MPs from House business and committee proceedings until after the repeat presidential election set to take place on October 26.
They made the statement before Opposition leader Raila Odinga announced he would not participate in a court-ordered repeat of the August 8 presidential election.
Tuesday, Jubilee MPs pressed on with the passage of the controversial election laws as Nasa pulled out its Members from House sittings to deny the ruling party legitimacy in previewing of the legislation.
National Super Alliance (Nasa) MPs said Tuesday they would boycott all parliamentary business over the proposed election law amendments.
Nasa dewhipped or barred its MPs from House business and committee proceedings until after the repeat presidential election set to take place on October 26.
They made the statement before Opposition leader Raila Odinga announced he would not participate in a court-ordered repeat of the August 8 presidential election.
Tuesday, Jubilee MPs pressed on with the passage of the controversial election laws as Nasa pulled out its Members from House sittings to deny the ruling party legitimacy in previewing of the legislation.
Debate on the Election Offences (Amendment) Bill, 2017 that seeks to strip off the powers of electoral agency chairman, Wafula Chebukati, as the sole returning officer of the presidential election started last evening.
“We have held a joint parliamentary committee and we have, therefore, resolved that our members have been dewhipped from the National Assembly and the Senate for this afternoon sitting and any other sittings discussing the two Bills which we hold are unconstitutional and illegal,” John Mbadi, Minority Leader in the National Assembly said at a press conference at Parliament Buildings Tuesday.
Machakos Senator Mutula Kilonzo Junior said Nasa decided not to participate in Bills, saying it is an attempt to overturn the Supreme Court ruling that annulled the August 8 presidential election results.
Jubilee MPs, however, dropped a section in the Bill that seeks to scrap the requirement that one has to have qualification of a Supreme Court judge to be the chairperson of Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). The committee retained the requirement that one must have a 15-year experience as a lawyer to be appointed chair of the IEBC.
The proposed changes to the existing law on the qualification of IEBC chairman would have opened a window for any member of the commission to replace Mr Chebukati as IEBC chairperson in his absence. The Bill expands the definition of the position of the chairperson of the IEBC to include the vice chairperson and any other commissioner in the absence of the two.
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