No lobbying ahead of vote on gender bill

Kenya Women Parliamentary Association members (KEWOPA) chairperson Cecily Mbarire and Priscilla Nyokabi addressing the media on the controversial one third gender rule in elective and apointive positions at parliament building. ON 07/05/15 PHOTO: JENIPHER WACHIE

MPs will today vote on a amendment that seeks to entrench the two-thirds gender rule in the Constitution.

But ahead of the crucial vote, neither Jubilee nor CORD convened a parliamentary group meeting to marshal numbers for the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill.