More than 24 county assemblies on Tuesday voted in favour of the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2020, surpassing the required constitutional threshold. Article 257 of the constitution requires that the Speakers of the two Houses receive certificates from the county assemblies’ speakers before the Bill is introduced in the respective Houses. Read MoreRuto’s allies kept up the pressure to amend the National Assembly Bill No.14 of 2020 to allow for a multiple-question referendum. We went out there and collected one million signatures and took them to the IEBC with the draft BBI Bill. In December 2020, Jubilee Party Vice-Chairman David Murathe strongly disagreed with the proposal of DP Ruto for a multi-choice question referendum.

Source: Standard Digital February 23, 2021 10:01 UTC