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House Speaker Kenneth Marende on Sunday told Members of Parliament that they should not complain over a Cabinet retreat in Mombasa that was to iron out issues of the draft law.
The events in Parliament last Wednesday when Imenti Central MP Gitobu Imanyara tabled the Special Tribunal Bill exposed the dishonesty of the President and Prime Minister in the war against impunity. Kenyans and most importantly the victims of post-election violence have stated what they want: the ICC and the special tribunal.
Sometime in the late 1990s, as donors tightened the purse strings on Kenya, a desperate President Moi dashed to London to plead Kenya's case before the head of the World Bank.
This is strange, isn't it? Prime Minister Raila Odinga is said to be increasingly unhappy with parliamentary watchdog committees. The better known of these, of course, are the Public Accounts Committee and the Public Investments Committee.
Mr Kalonzo Musyoka, the Vice President, so badly wants to be the tenant at State House that he will do anything to secure the rights of occupancy. But he's forgotten the critical fact the Kenyan people whom he seems to treat like morons are the only ones who can hand him the keys to that residence.
The manner in which executive power will be shared has predictably emerged as the key contentious issue in the debate over the proposed draft constitution. This is in keeping with past tradition where the powers to be vested in the presidency and premiership proved to be the most bitterly divisive issue.
Corporate governance of parastatals has come a long way if their current balance sheets are anything to go by. A number of them previously known to burden the public with Treasury-guaranteed loans, often defaulted on, are even turning a profit.
One of the most contentious clauses in the new land policy is a proposal to scrap 999-year leases. The draft proposes to cap leasehold terms at 99 years.
As dealers in solar products position themselves to exploit opportunities presented by rising energy costs in Kenya, unscrupulous traders are also cashing in on the boom. There are reports that fake solar inverters, bulbs and batteries have flooded the local market stifling growth of local industries and leaving consumers at the losing end.
Eighty bars have been closed down in Embu West District. They were shut after the local liquor court refused to renew their trading licenses, according to the area District Commissioner, Mr Mohammed Maalim.
Sports minister Prof Hellen Sambili is not new to controversies. The confusion surrounding the reappointment of Youth Enterprise Development Fund (YEDF) chief executive Umuro Wario is her latest battle.
The government and the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) are embroiled in a quiet war over the Sh6 billion shares the workers pensions body holds in the National Bank of Kenya (NBK).
Wealthy land owners will no longer be able to hold on to vast tracts of under-utilised land when the new lands policy takes effect. It proposes a raft of measures aimed at ensuring land is put to productive use, including taxation of idle land. The policy aims at correcting historical injustices, including a lopsided system of land tenure inherited from the colonial administration.
A section of Rift Valley MPs have launched a fresh scathing attack on the government over eviction of Mau Forest settlers, saying they should instead be relocated. The over 13 MPs had on Saturday visited nearly 3,000 squatters who have since left the south western part of the Mau forest and are camping at Kapsongor.
A Kenyan lawyer based in the United Kingdom has sued the Kenyan High Commission in London over Sh41 million ( £325,961) allegedly owed to him.
Only one obstacle remains between Kenyans and a new constitution: The sharing of executive authority between the President and Prime Minister.
The company at the centre of a Sh510 million suit against the government at the International Court of Arbitration is linked to two former aides of former President Daniel arap Moi, the Sunday Nation has established.
Men in Kenya have three times as many sexual partners during their lifetime than women do, a new study shows.
Lawyer Patrick Kahonge never gives his clients an estimated time for completion of transactions at the Lands ministry. "It can take two days or up to six months to get a response for a straightforward request for information.
Cabinet ministers have been gagged as a radical list of measures were crafted to lift the Kenyan Government out of the pit of acrimony and disunity.
The political flirtation between Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Imenti Central MP Gitobu Imanya appears to have hit the rocks after a Bill moved by the latter nearly collapsed in dramatic circumstances in Parliament on Wednesday.
In 1991, newly appointed Attorney-General Amos Wako stood on the floor of Parliament and proclaimed that "a characteristic of the rule of law is that no man, save for the President, is above the law".
"This Constitution is the supreme law of the Republic and binds all state organs at all levels of government and all persons . . . any law that is inconsistent with this Constitution is void . . ." Section 2 of Draft Constitution.
Two people have been killed in two incidents in Marakwet District. In the first incident, a 17-year-old boy was on Friday shot dead and three of his relatives injured by robbers in Kapkochur village.
Salt companies in Magarini District have been ordered to demolish all dykes preventing water from flowing into the Indian Ocean.
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