National Assembly Speaker Proposes Abolition of Parliamentary Women Representative Seats

National Assembly speaker Justine Muturi is now proposing the abolition of women representative and nominated legislature seats in parliament.

Addressing the Common Wealth Parliamentarian Association on Women Leadership in Johannesburg South Africa, Muturi has said the seats should be replaced with 100 nominated women seats in order to achieve the two thirds gender rule.

In a report on Nation FM, the National Assembly speaker says this will also absolve Kenyans the burden of over representation.

Muturi wants IEBC given the mandate of coming up with ways of arriving at the 100 women nomination seats.

The speakers remarks come amid rising temperatures in the National Assembly following a controversial bill by MP Samuel Chepkong'a seeking to change the Constitution and shelve the deadline to implement the two-thirds gender rule in the Assembly.

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