Below is a list of terms that you might encounter in parliamentary circles that has been translated into Kiswahili: National Assembly- Bunge la Taifa Senate- Seneti Bill- Mswada Amendment- Marekebisho ya Sheria Article 62 of the Constitution- Ibara ya 62 ya Katiba First Reading of the Bill- Mswada kusomwa mara
A few weeks ago, I wrote in another forum that of all the tools that lie at the disposal of the Kenyan citizen, I think the most progressive is one that enables one to petition Parliament on any matter that falls within Parliament’s mandate. I wrote that the form of
Below is a summary of nine selected Bills pending before the Parliament of Canada (either the Commons or Senate). The comprehensive list can be accessed from their website here. I noticed something interesting about how they name their Bills. They use numbers and the prefixes S or C stand for
This part of Tom’s village in the upstream is called the Senate. If it happens that the making of Tom’s Ball concerns the upstream government, then the Ball would be sent to the Senate so that they too can have their equivalent of Tom’s mama chama members to say something
Then when they have done this, they have another stage where they say, we move that the Ball Bill be read a Third Time. Funny, right? And then friends who love Tom would say, we love you Tom, we love your ball while Tom’s enemies would say, Tom, your ball
The Bills before the UK Parliament (either Commons or Lords) 2017-2019 are comprehensively listed on UK Parliament’s website. The list below is a select few that caught our attention. #1 Certificate of Loss Bill The Bill seeks to make provision for a certificate to be issued to mothers in
Dear reader, This is a birth of an idea. A few weeks ago, I had informed you that my website designer and I were busy developing this virtual space. And finally, here we are with ayes & nays. Why the name ayes & nays? I thought that the name aptly
This poem was recited to Justice V.C.R.A.C Crabbe on 28th January 2016 after successful completion of a two-week legislative drafting course at Diani, Mombasa, Kenya. we went out in search of meaning subjects and predicates guiding us dangling modifiers sounding our alarm because we felt that ambiguity would aid
In the ‘Unfinished Journey: The Life and Times of VCRAC Crabbe’, Kwesi Amoak in this authorized biography enables us to understand who the renowned legislative drafter Prof. Crabbe is. Every page of this book (280 pages in total) is a nugget of wisdom. In 2016, I was privileged in this
