Senate System Has Reportedly Crashed Amid Public Participation on Constitutional Amendment Bill 2024
Senate System Has Reportedly Crashed after Kenyans overwhelmingly came out to provide their submissions regarding the controversial Constitutional (Amendment) Bill, 2024.
This comes after the Senate invited public participation towards the Bill in accordance with the Constitution (2010)..
The Senate has since announced that due to the high number of submissions, their system experienced temporary issues.
“Thank you for the overwhelming response on The Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) (No 2) Bill ,2024. Due to high volumes of submissions, our email system has temporarily experienced issues.”
“The Senate received over 200,000 submissions, reaching the maximum capacity of the allocated email addresses.”
The Senate went ahead to provide an alternative email address to Kenyans as the process is still ongoing. The deadline for providing submissions has been extended to Saturday, October 26 at 5pm
Alternatively, you may send your submissions [email protected]. Kenyans are currently at the Kenyatta International Convention Center (KICC) submitting their written memoranda regarding the Bill.
The Bill seeks to amend the Presidential term to seven years from the current five. This amendment also proposes to extend the terms of other elected leaders; Governors, Members of Parliament (MPs), Senators and Members of County Assembly (MCAs).
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