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Kenya: Why MPs Took a Three-Week Break

One big House with no business to transact: That was the reality that visited Parliament on Tuesday.

Author: maimuna

Do these Kenyans know what they are doing?

According to the available information on Kenya, they are a (parliamentary) democracy and a republic and so we KNOW (presumably) that they hold dear their precious constitution. Furthermore they held the elections 2007 according to their constitution, and so we expect that they have a majority party (that did win the most seats) in government and they have an official opposition.

If not, then can they tell us upon which document their legitimacy as a sovereign state is based? Can they tell us what it is or where we can read it?

Or have they scrapped their constitution without telling the world? Or is Kenya a de facto one party state while pretending to be multiparty state de jure? DO they know?

Poor creatures.

And to think that many Kenyans died trying to bring about multi-party democracy to Kenya!

The happy-go-lucky Mr. Wako and (the uncut) Karua may not know nor care either. But tell us, Hon Orengo, the learned friend of the Kamukunji fame ...



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