{"id":329604,"date":"2011-03-22T04:22:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T04:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/22\/kenya-showdown-looms-as-mps-reconvene\/"},"modified":"2011-03-22T04:22:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T04:22:19","slug":"kenya-showdown-looms-as-mps-reconvene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/22\/kenya-showdown-looms-as-mps-reconvene\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Showdown Looms as MPs Reconvene"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"64.5943350936\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/><!-- close google_banner_mid div ---><\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/450a559cnation180.jpg\" alt=\"The Nation (Nairobi)\" title=\"Visit The Nation (Nairobi)\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p>Emeka-Mayaka<\/p>\n<p>21 March 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Nairobi \u2014 Politics revolving around the trial of post-election violence suspects and supremacy wars between coalition partners is expected to cloud House business as MPs continue with their Fourth Session.<\/p>\n<p>There are fears that implementation of the new Constitution will be the major casualty of the likely showdown between President Kibaki&#8217;s PNU and Prime Minister Raila Odinga&#8217;s ODM.<\/p>\n<p>Other battles would emanate from plans by the PNU to pull out of the grand coalition and postpone the next election.<\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_inset_a div ---><\/p>\n<p>A group of MPs led by Local Government assistant minister Lewis Nguyai and Jamleck Kamau (Kigumo) have declared that they will push for postponement of elections if the case against the Ocampo Six is not resolved by next year.<\/p>\n<p>They allege that the case against Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta was a conspiracy to deny him a chance to run for president.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those behind this scheming will be disappointed because we shall have no election until the ICC issue is resolved,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_inset_b div ---><\/p>\n<p>MPs return to the House in an acrid environment highly poisoned by animosity over imminent trials of key politicians at the International Criminal Court (ICC).<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to persuade the ICC that Kenya is ready to try the post-election violence suspects at home may also see the return of a Bill for setting up a local special court for the cases.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Parliament resumes business at a time when the PNU side of the coalition is emboldened by its high numbers, apparently enjoying the support of MPs opposed to Mr Odinga.<\/p>\n<p>Re-energized by the higher numbers, the PNU side could re-introduce the Bill with the hope that it would mobilise sufficient support to pass it.<\/p>\n<p>The constant threat to move a no-confidence vote against Mr Odinga and the unresolved matter of delimitation of constituency boundaries would certainly provide ammunition for supremacy fights.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts by the Orange group to reconstitute House committees by withdrawing rebel members from critical House teams is also likely to be a major fight.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Abdikadir Mohammed, who chairs the Oversight Committee on the Implementation of the Constitution, has sounded the alarm over the process.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Politics around the next election and the possible trial of the post-election violence suspects pose the greatest challenge and could distort the constitutional implementation,&#8221; he told the Nation on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><!-- end story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_banner_subbody div ---><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><b>More News on allAfrica.com<\/b><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Go here to read the rest:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201103220013.html\" title=\"Kenya: Showdown Looms as MPs Reconvene\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kenya: Showdown Looms as MPs Reconvene<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Emeka-Mayaka 21 March 2011 Nairobi \u2014 Politics revolving around the trial of post-election violence suspects and supremacy wars between coalition partners is expected to cloud House business as MPs continue with their Fourth Session. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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