19 July 2011
Nairobi — The blame game between the players in the implementation of the Constitution continued in a parliamentary committee meeting on Tuesday.
The discussion threatened to get out of hand in the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee hearings, prompting the chairman of the committee, Mr Abdikadir Mohammed, to send journalists away to solve the conflict.
The Constitution directs that all House committee meetings should be open to the public and the media, unless under exceptional circumstances.
Mr Mohammed later said “there were many problems” with the Attorney General Amos Wako, the Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution (CIC), the minister for Justice and the Executive regarding the implementation of the Constitution, which could not be sorted in public.
“When some of these people see cameras, they play to the gallery and that way, we lose focus on the serious issues,” he said.
Some of the contested issues include the salary dispute between the Commission and the Executive, the delay of Bills in Cabinet and the role of the AG’s office in quickening processing of Bills prior to presidential assent.
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