Senate constitutional amendment Bill deserves Kenyans' support

The National Assembly during a past session. MPs passed the Constitution of Kenya Amendment Bill, 2025. [File, Standard]

Echoes of constitutional amendment have dominated the corridors of the both Houses Parliament in the last few weeks. The National Assembly was the first to move in that direction. The assembly marshaled the two-thirds magic number, enough to pass the Constitution of Kenya Amendment Bill, 2025. The object of the Bill was to entrench key Parliament-managed funds, among them National Government Constituencies Development Fund, popularly known as NG-CDF.

Successful mobilisation of the threshold needed was to pass this Bill was unsurprising. For the National Assembly, the NG-CDF is a matter of life and death. Having exhausted all conceivable legislative manoeuvring to rescue the Fund, and with the Judiciary rightly standing its ground on its unconstitutionality and setting a timeline for its retirement, constitutional codification was the National Assembly's last hope. The Bill has since been forwarded to the Senate.