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Two parliamentary committees have 45 days to inform Kenyans whether some eight amendment bills and a new bill proposed by the National Dialogue Committee (NADCO) will go for a referendum through a popular initiative or the parliamentary route.

The Senate Justice and Legal Affairs and its sister committee in the National Assembly tasked with considering the amendment bills by NADCO team revealed a roadmap for considering the constitutional amendment bill.

Options available

National Assembly Justice and Legal Affairs Committee (JLAC) committee chairman George Murugara (pictured) confirmed that there are two options available in a move to change the supreme law, adding that the joint committee had agreed on how the paperwork is going to be done so that they do not spend a lot of time.

“We were given 45 days within which to submit the report and this is why we have convened the first meeting this week. We confirm the two options are available. Parliamentary route and referendum are options,” said Murugara who is the co-chair of the joint parliamentary committee.

He went on: “Today, we were dealing with preliminaries. We have just worked on what we are going to do after this, how we are going to hold our meetings, which days and what times.”

Senator Hillary Sigei (Bomet) who is a co-chair of the joint committee said that the joint team agreed on a framework on how to bring to implement, the recommendations of the NADCO committee.