House leadership, groups clash over gender rule

Commission on Implementation of the Constitution Chair Charles Nyachae. CIC wants Ainabkoi MP Samuel Chepkonga to withdraw the Bill that seeks to postpone implementation of the gender rule.

The leadership of the National Assembly has clashed with a constitutional body and civil society groups over the formula to ensure more women ascend to public positions as provided for in the two-thirds gender rule.

And further divisions emerged Wednesday between male and female lawmakers after National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale and Justice and Legal Affairs Committee Chairman Samuel Chepkonga told off women MPs fighting a bill designed to stagger implementation of the gender rule.