Technical teams to meet National Dialogue Committee
The eight-member technical committee will on Monday table a raft of proposals that have been harmonized after submissions from both Kenya Kwanza and Azimio camps.
PoliticalPulseChat understands that the technical panel is burning the midnight oil to harmonize the proposals from the two camps before meeting the 10-member National Dialogue Committee.
“We should be ready to submit a report on the harmonized proposals from Kenya Kwanza and Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition by Monday,” said a member of the technical committee on condition of anonymity.
The team was to submit the report on Friday but that has been delayed awaiting the arrival of senior members of the NDC who are currently overseas for official duties.
National Assembly Majority leader Kimani Ichung’wah who is the head of the Kenya Kwanza delegation to the NDC and his minority counterpart Opiyo Wandayi-the Azimio deputy head of the delegation currently in the United States of America.
The technical teams for Kenya Kwanza and Azimio have been holding separate discussions to prepare their own submissions but will converge on Friday to harmonize the details.
They will then make plenary submissions to the dialogue committee on Monday at the Bomas of Kenya.
Members of the Azimio dialogue technical team include Jeremiah Kioni -Team Leader, Adams Oloo, Zein Abubakar, and Isabel Githinji.
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Kenya Kwanza settled on lawyers Muthomi Thiankolu, Linda Musumba, Nick Biketi, and Duncan Ojwang’.
Azimio is said to have submitted to its side of the technical committee some radical proposals.
One of them is seeking to allow political parties to pick commissioners for the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission.
As part of its radical electoral reform proposals, Azimio wants the recruitment of the IEBC commissioners fashioned around the Inter-Party Parliamentary Group (IPPG) of 1997.
An opposition representative in the dialogue committee confirmed that one of their agenda under the electoral justice thematic area would be going for reforms reminiscent of the 1997 arrangement.
Another option that Azimio has tabled is to have the current selection panel for the IEBC commissioners reconstituted and allow a call for fresh applications.
In the 1997 deal, the then-ruling party Kanu and several opposition outfits agreed to pick electoral commissioners to run the general election that year.
The dialogue team adopted five broader issues that were framed by the technical teams for dialogue.
Technical teams to meet National Dialogue Committee
