How MPs Bomas boycott put slow puncture on Kenya's sovereignty

A section of MPs during the ParliamentSession after the long recess . February 11th,2025.[Elvis Ogina/Standard]

In the annals of Kenya’s constitutional history, one statistic should shame every MP into permanent silence. At the National Constitutional Conference, Bomas I and II, the forum where the people’s will was to be forged into a new Constitution, MPs recorded the worst attendance of all nine delegate categories. Dead last.

Only 13 per cent attended Bomas I, for 28 working days between 28 April and 6 June 2003, and 14 per cent in Bomas II held for 21 working days from 18 August 2003 to 26 September 2004.