Petition filed to limit nominated MCAs tenure to one term

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Siaya County Assembly during a sitting on November 8 2017.[File-Standard]

A petition has been tabled before the Senate seeking to limit the tenure of Members of County Assembly to one term.

Senate Speaker Amason Kingi issued this communication of the petition before the house on Wednesday during the afternoon session. The petitioner, Laban Omusundi, has raised a number of issues to be addressed lamenting how positions designed for inclusion have become lifetime entitlements.

He argues that Article 90 of the constitution established the party lists nominations as a mechanism to correct exclusion and expand representation but not to entrench privilege. He further says that the repeated nomination of MCAs amounts to deliberate subversion of the Constitution which subjects nomination to political patronage.