National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi is Tuesday afternoon expected to deliver a major ruling that may further jolt the bill to amend the Constitution under the Building Bridges Initiative. At the start of the second reading on the BBI bill on Thursday, MPs raised a litany of questions on the procedure and authenticity of the legislation. Among the issues that the team Muturi put in place has considered and given a decision border on whether the BBI is a popular initiative as contemplated under Article 257 of the Constitution. The speaker is also likely to checkmate the BBI if due process was followed in considering the bill, being one under a popular initiative. Former MP Abdikadir Mohamed, lawyers Ekuru Aukot and Bobby Mkangi said there was a problem with the two Houses passing different versions of the BBI bill.

Source: The Star May 03, 2021 20:03 UTC