Women MPs consult at the Kenya Institute of Administration on March 20, 2010 as lawmakers sought consensus on the draft Constitution. Kenya’s constitution states that there will be 47 women in National Assembly, each elected from the counties.Women MPs last Thursday demanded more seats in the 27 parliamentary committees in accordance with the one-third representation rule in the Constitution.
Women MPs last Thursday demanded more seats in the 27 parliamentary committees in accordance with the one-third representation rule in the Constitution.
They engaged their male colleagues in the House in a heated debate but lost after the male MPs argued that they lacked the numbers that to make the one-third representation rule a reality.
