PARLIAMENT HAS NO POWER TO REJECT CAMPAIGN SPENDING LIMITS

Parliamentary Committee on Delegated Legislation is terribly mistaken to think that it has powers to countervail IEBC gazetted Election Campaign Spending Limits. It does not. 1/13 The operating law is S.18(1) of the Election Campaign Finance Act. Let the law speak:

"The Commission SHALL, at least twelve months before election, by Gazette Notice, prescribe spending limits that a candidate or party may spend..."

The operating word is "SHALL." 2/13

#JustIn
IEBC has gazetted Election Campaign Contribution and Spending Limits for parties and candidates. Presidential Candidates may raise and spend upto Kshs. 4.4Billion. Nairobi Gubernatorial Candidates may raise and spend upto Kshs. 117Million. 1/9 Individual contributions must not exceed 20% of the prescribed spending limits. This is to avoid moneyed contributors single handedly financing and owning candidates and creating a possibility of quid pro quo post-election corruption. 2/9

THE BBI REPORT ANALYSED

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1/ The BBI Report is a terrible anti-climax, and carries mixed results. This thread will interrogate those recommendations. Broadly, the recommendations do not reflect the urgency, influence and prominence that supported its mandate. 2/ The proposal to create the position Prime Minister is a huge PR exercise intended to alter the optics without meaningful drive towards political inclusion. The proposed PM is nothing more than a super CS drawn from the same government. This proposal must be rejected.