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MPs beat retreat, undo amendment amid uproar

  Embarrassed, startled by national outrage, and shocked by media exposure of their selfish interests, Members of Parliament reversed some of the stunning amendments they passed on Wednesday night.

The MPS had ganged up against the new electoral laws on political parties and academic levels for running a process seen to be a subversion of the sovereign will of Kenyans as expressed in the 2010 referendum on Constitution.

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