Gladys Shollei is pushing a dangerous amendment, and Kenyans should pay attention.
Yesterday, during a debate on the Public Participation Bill, she proposed removing a key safeguard: the requirement to publish public participation outcomes.
Right now, Section 12(2) requires that once public participation is done, the results be made public, for example, on a website, so citizens can see what Kenyans actually said.
Her proposal? Remove it completely or
Keep that information private.
If you want it, you must apply to the same authority that collected it.
Let me be honest, we already know how this ends.
We have been requesting NHIF, Housing levy, and capitation data for over 6 months. Letters sent to MOH and MOE. No response. Total silence. We are now heading to court soon.
Now imagine this:
A bad bill is rejected by Kenyans during public participation.
The authority then claims: “Kenyans supported it.”
How do you verify?
You write to them, and they ignore you.
That’s the trap.
This amendment would legalize secrecy and make it impossible to hold the government accountable.
Public participation without transparency is just a rubber stamp.
MPs must reject this amendment.
Kenyans deserve a public portal where participation outcomes are visible, verifiable, and permanent.
Enough hiding.
Article 35 on access to information is becoming ceremonial, and soon, we will prove that in court.
@sumeiya_omar I thought so too. Lakini kwa ground things are different. Patience my love. 😂😂 Kunywa maji ukisubiria, apparently there's somebody for everyone. 💀😂💔
THE LAND LAWS AMENDMENT BILL, NO. 2 OF 2023
This is a thread highlighting the (evil) amendments proposed to be introduced to our land laws by "the Bill".
1/ Section 48 of the amendment bill introduces an amendment to the Land Act, no 6 of 2012 by introducing Section 28A