Do you think the Bill will be passed come on Thursday?
The Bill tabled in parliament by Hon Duale that is meant to increase women representation in the positions of power and parliament has received a lot of mixed reactions from some of the MPs.
A slay queen is a woman who wants to choke everyone else with how beautiful and cool they are. Social media and slay queen are “chanda na pete” literally. The slay queens party hard have their make up intact all the time.
In any case you take her out for lunch or dinner , you moght be forced to leave your jewels and phone as security as she will spend everything leaving you broke and finished.
(Kenya- I have a statement allegedly from MP Didmus Barasa- something about the 2/3 gender rule and slay queens. Difficult to verify, does anyone know if he made such remarks today?)
— Samira Sawlani (@samirasawlani) November 20, 2018
In my opinion , Kenyan Mps are fearing for the resources of Kenyans as they suspect that slay queens might massage their way into the Kenyan parliament and leave the country broke and in debt , forget the Chinese loans.
Anytime a slay queen hits the internet over a scandal Kenyans are quick to curse and slam her for her devil mentored ways of causing mental panic to men.
MPs held a spirited debate on the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2018, sponsored by Majority leader Aden Duale, seeking to ensure that the two Houses comply with the two-thirds gender prescribed by the Constitution.
Currently, there are 76 women in the National Assembly — 23 elected from constituencies, 47 women representatives and six nominated.
The Senate has 21 women senators who include 19 nominated and three elected members. Elected senators are Fatuma Dullo (Isiolo), Margaret Kamar (Uasin Gishu) and Susan Kihika (Nakuru).
If the law were to be passed and apply to the current term, the National Assembly would require 20 additional women and Senate two more women to meet the gender principle.
The National Assembly has 349 members while the Senate has 67 members. The new changes would push the number of MPs to 438.
Kenya ranks low in women representation with only 22 per cent of MPs being women behind Rwanda (61 per cent) and Ethiopia (50 per cent) — the only African countries that have attained the two-thirds gender parity according to World Bank data.
President Uhuru Kenyatta, Deputy President William Ruto, ODM party leader Raila Odinga and Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka have all implored their party MPs to pass the Bill.
Yesterday, Majority leader Duale urged members to endorse the amendment to safeguard the Constitution.
But Kimilili MP Didmus Barasa told a press conference —later raised in the House —that the Bill lacked modalities on how the women would be picked to attain the threshold.
He expressed fear that if the Bill sails through as it is, women at the grassroots would be shortchanged in nominations to the House by those favoured by political party “owners”.
Kimilili MP Didmus Barasa has said he will not support the Two-Thirds Gender Bill, terming it a move by ‘slay queens’ who want join Parliament without hard work.
The lawmaker, while addressing journalists in Parliament on Tuesday, said he would rally his counterparts pic.twitter.com/CzZN2RxWk4
— Kenya ?? (@KenyaNotes) November 20, 2018
“I ask my fellow MPs to reject this Bill as it is because it does not give an opportunity for the rural woman to choose who will represent them in Parliament. It instead grants political parties’ leadership powers to bring slay queens through nominations,” Barasa said.
“We have seen people nominating their girlfriends. It is true we need women in active political leadership but they must be women of substance. I want to tell the Majority leader that this Bill is dead on arrival,” he said.
My statement during the meeting with Kenya Women Parliamentarians (KEWOPA) on matters Two-third-Gender bill which will be tabled in Parliament tomorrow for the 2nd reading. I urge all our Members to support this bill. pic.twitter.com/h51HA5eVER
— Kalonzo Musyoka (@skmusyoka) November 19, 2018
Kangema MP Muturi Kigano had tried to have the Bill trashed, saying it could only have been considered through a referendum.
The Bill requires the support of 233 MPs (two thirds of all the members) to pass. If it sails through the House and is assented to by the President, it will be effective after the 2022 General Election.
A similar Bill flopped in the previous Parliament after male lawmakers ganged up to defeat the motion by walking out.