The enactment of the gender bill has failed three times. SUPPORTThe MPs failed to turn up despite President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga passionately appealing to their respective party members to back the bill. The Constitution states that no gender shall be more than two-thirds both in elective and appointive positions in public service. The Senate, with 21 women members out of 67 (14 percent), is three members shy of the constitutional requirement of at least 30 per cent. The court also gave a timeline of August 27, 2015 to have mechanisms that will actualise the two-thirds gender principle.

Source: Daily Nation February 27, 2019 11:02 UTC