Kwa muda sasa, nimekuwa nikitafakari kuhusu nafasi ya Ibara ya 7 ya Katiba ya Kenya inayotambua Kiswahili kama lugha rasmi ya Jamhuri yetu (pamoja na Kiingereza). Nimekuwa nikijiuliza ni kwa nini sheria zetu za Kenya hazijatafsiriwa kwa lugha ya Kiswahili, miaka tisa baada ya kuzinduliwa kwa Katiba yetu. Ili kupata
On 15th August this year, the ayes & nays blog will be celebrating its first anniversary. On 15th August last year, I welcomed you to the blog. I wrote in that post the following: Here you will find my thoughts strewn. Sometimes you will encounter beam of questions lighting dark
Photo credit: Wilberforce Okwiri/Standard Introduction This blog post is on Kenya’s ongoing attempt to amend the Constitution through the popular initiative. This post is structured in two parts: the first part, dealing with the procedure laid out in the Constitution; and the second part, providing an overview of the Punguza
Introduction In this post, I draw a few distinctions between the Louisiana Legislature and the Kenya Legislature. I had the privilege of visiting the Louisiana Legislature at Baton Rouge, Louisiana on 19th June 2019. Like Kenya, their legislature is bicameral but there are a few broad differences between these two
LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE/NRA-ILA I have been in New Orleans, Louisiana, this past week in a two-week course on legislative drafting organized by the Public Law Centre of the Tulane Law School. This first week has been exciting. We have had brilliant presentations on the US and Parliamentary Systems, Legislative and Administrative Drafting,
Let us dive in. Seven Acts, seven slabs of fun and a dash of the weird. #1 The Witchcraft Act This has a respectable title. Lawyers will say ‘Cap 67’. It has been with us since 1925. Where were you in 1925? This is an interesting piece of legislation. Under
DRAFTERS AND ENTHUSIASTS OF LEGISLATION are aware of enacting formulas in Bills. It is interesting to note that the enacting formulas of most Parliaments are similar save for a few that are distinct. Below is a list of these formulas. This is a work in progress and with time we
The year 2018 saw publication of notable books in the parliamentary circles. In this post, I share with you the ones that I came across. If you know of more, please let me know in the comments section. # 1 The Power of Politicians by Frances D’Souza and Tessa Jowell,
IT WAS FRIDAY, 5TH JULY 1974. The language used by Members of Parliament up to that point was English. Then President Kenyatta communicates his desire that the Kiswahili language should be the language to use in the Chamber. But first, the bombshell by Speaker Fred Mati, MP: Before Mr. Mutiso-Muyu
Image credit: Kenya Law This is an audio recording of Chapter Eight of the Constitution of Kenya on the legislature. The text of the Constitution is freely available on the Kenya Law website. This chapter has six parts. Part 1 is on the establishment and role of Parliament. Part
