Court gives AG, CIC 40 days to prepare gender bill [News Bulletin]
- 5 years ago
Justice Mumbi Ngugi had no kind words for the Attorney General and the Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution on Friday when she delivered her judgement on the two-thirds gender rule.
She found that the AG and CIC had, ‘dropped the ball’ and demonstrated, ‘laxity and reluctance’ in preparing legislation for tabling in Parliament that would see the Constitutional requirement that no more than two thirds of elective and appointive bodies are composed of the same gender, realised.
The AG she said, had waited until the ‘last minute’ to set in motion mechanisms toward the drafting of a bill and the CIC, she said, ‘attempted to wash their hands’ of the failure to meet the August 27 deadline set by the Supreme Court in December of 2012.
She found that the AG and CIC had, ‘dropped the ball’ and demonstrated, ‘laxity and reluctance’ in preparing legislation for tabling in Parliament that would see the Constitutional requirement that no more than two thirds of elective and appointive bodies are composed of the same gender, realised.
The AG she said, had waited until the ‘last minute’ to set in motion mechanisms toward the drafting of a bill and the CIC, she said, ‘attempted to wash their hands’ of the failure to meet the August 27 deadline set by the Supreme Court in December of 2012.