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Reports that MPs had ganged up to force through an amendment on party-hopping in the Election Offences Bill 2016 and Election Law (Amendment) Bill 2016 had threatened to throw a spanner in the works early this week.
Quite remarkably, the amendments were shelved yesterday without much ado. It was easy to see where the proponents of the clause that bars party-hopping (President Uhuru Kenyatta and CORD leader Raila Odinga) were coming from.
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