Here is what you need to know to keep up to speed with today’s happenings.
COP29
The 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, more commonly known as COP29, will enter its second day today, Tuesday, November 12, 2024.
This is the 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference.
COP29 is being held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from November 11-22, 2024.
Prime Cabinet Secretary and Foreign Affairs CS Musalia Mudavadi is representing President William Ruto at the event.
Kenya is set to champion impactful climate adaptation and mitigation measures for Africa at the COP29.
Welcomed Prime Cabinet Secretary H.E. @MusaliaMudavadi to Baku, Azerbaijan, as he represents H.E. President @WilliamsRuto at COP29.
— Hon. Aden Duale, EGH (@HonAdenDuale) November 11, 2024
Together with my Ministry's technical team, we outlined Kenya's ambitious climate agenda, focusing on green energy, resilience and global… pic.twitter.com/1NwJsdZWKa
Nandi County demos
A section of Nandi County residents are today expected to engage in running battles with the police as they demonstrate calling for the ouster of Governor Stephen Sang.
The demonstrators will likely have it rough with the police, who had earlier banned the planned demos.
However, Senator Samson Cherargei, who is set to lead the demos, stated on Monday, November 11, 2024, that everything will go on as planned despite the police ban.
Cherargei, in a statement shared via his official social media accounts on Monday, November 11, 2024, stated that the peaceful protests that had been scheduled for November 12 and 13, 2024, will go on despite facing a ban from the police.
The lawmaker argues that the demos are aimed at calling for the removal of Governor Sang from office by way of impeachment.
Cherargei further argued that the move by police to ban the planned demonstrations undermines the constitutional provision of Article 37 that provides for the right to peacefully demonstrate.
“I have noted with a lot of disdain and great reservations the move by the Nandi County police purporting to ban tomorrow’s peaceful demonstration in support of removal by impeachment of inept sang and his Moribund CECMs.
“This undermines the constitutional provision of Article 37 that provides for this right to peacefully demonstrate,” Cherargei stated.
Graft cases in court
A graft case involving former Kipipiri Member of Parliament Amos Kimunya, the immediate former Majority Leader of the National Assembly, will today, November 12, 2024, be brought up in court for mention.
Kimunya is charged with abuse of office and fraudulent disposal of public property in allegations relating to the excision of 25 acres of land from parcel No. Nyandarua/Njabini/530 belonging to the Njabini Farmers Training Centre without consent of the Ministry of Agriculture.
The case will be mentioned at Milimani Anti-Corruption Court.
