By WALTER MENYAMore by this AuthorCounty governments will be able to conduct referendums in their jurisdictions but on limited issues touching on their mandate, if the proposed Referendum Bill 2020 is adopted. Amid heightened calls for a referendum, there is no law to guide the conduct of such a vote. Efforts by the defunct Constitutional Implementation Commission (CIC) to have Parliament enact a law to govern the conduct of a referendum did not bear fruit. The justice affairs committee, then chaired by Samuel Chepkonga, rebuffed the commission, telling members that the committee was drafting its own referendum law. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries (Amendment) Bill seeks to amend section 36 of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Act to guide the redrawing of electoral boundaries.

Source: Daily Nation March 15, 2020 06:00 UTC