Politics

The Building Bridges Initiative (Constitutional Amendment)-BBI, consolidated appeals will be heard by a Seven-Judge bench for four days beginning 29th June 2021 to 2nd July 2021. Justice Daniel Musinga, the President of the Court of Appeal will constitute the bench, with the permission of Chief Justice Martha Koome. Speaking on…

Pavel Robert Oimeke, the ODM Party candidate for the Bonchari constituency by-election was on Wednesday morning declared winner after garnering 8,049 votes, representing 30 pc of the votes cast. Jubilee Party’s Zebedeo Opore followed closely with 7,279 votes while UDA’s Teresa Bitutu, the widow of former Bonchari MP Oroo Oyioka,…

Wiper Party Leader Kalonzo Musyoka has urged Kenyans at large to respect independent institutions and especially the office of the President. Kalonzo says as a democratic nation our Country values are drawn from the respect for the rule of law, separation of powers and respect of the people’s freedoms. “It…

Kenya’s Attorney General Paul Kihara has filed an appeal against the High Court’s ruling on petitions filed against the Building Bridges Initiative issued on May 13. Kihara says he is dissatisfied with the decision of the 5-judge bench delivered at the High Court. “I the 1st respondent, being dissatisfied with…

It has been reported that a Nairobi court has halted the removal of Nominated Senator Isaac Mwaura from the ruling Jubilee Party, just hours after the Senate Speaker declared his seat vacant. The orders, reports indicate, shall remain in force pending the hearing and determination of his appeal, which has…

Chadians are going to the polls today, April 11, 2021, an election that is widely expected to see President Idriss Déby extend his 30-year premiership. In power since 1990, this will be the 68-year-old incumbent’s sixth term. When he was nominated to be the ruling Patriotic Salvation Movement’s flagbearer this…

Abdikadir Haji, popularly known as Abdul Haji, son to the former senator the late Yusuf Haji, has been declared as the duly-elected senator for Garissa County. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Chairman Wafula Chebukati, in a gazette notice dated April 6, 2021, declared a no-contest as no one…

ODM Party leader Rt. Hon Raila Odinga will battle it out with his deputies Ali Hassan Joho (Mombasa Governor) and Wycliffe Oparanya (Kakamega Governor) for the Party’s presidential candidate come 2022. Confirming the three, ODM’s National Elections Board (NEB) Chairperson Catherine Mumma said the three candidates beat the March 31,…

The Senate Health Committee has summoned all 47 governors and their Executive teams to shed light on how they spent billions of public resources sent to counties to combat the Covid-19 pandemic in the 2019/2020 financial year. Following Auditor-General Nancy Gathungu’s report citing several violations and recommending the probing of…

POLITICS, THURSDAY; Members of the “One Kenya Alliance” put political rivals on notice, says that the wins on the just concluded by-elections are a show of what’s to come. “The just-concluded by-elections in various parts of the country and the victory which we celebrate here today is a clear indication…