@Mr Tea.

Ease of the speaker,he could have tucked his tail and picked Mr. 8% and hid behind the simplistic interpretation of the law that Mutula and other 1eyed PNU lawyers love,but he didn't.

Instead he made a ruling that basically will force MK and RAO to also think outside the box.

Isn't it fantastic that the excessive powers of the presidency are being chipped,at this rate,we may soon have a real democracy.


I guess if you can't win with facts,you can always pen bile-laced,xenophobic rants to distract everyone.

Bareta,fear not expressing your opinion because if it is yours it should be safe.

Now that thing about raila knowing his direction- did he not want the leader of government business position because he said it is his? Marende said no and raila celebrates! he should have said the truth- 'all i want is to stop kalonzo taking it because it may make him appear bigger than me' or said the right thing- 'this coalition is nonsensical so we should convene parliament to pass necessary laws to enable fresh elections' rather than holding the whole country ransom in power games.

Excellent news. There is hope yet for Kenya. Marendes give Kenya a lifeline.

@Brewer and other such brothers/sisters. Let me keep this parsimonious. I will leave out the names of the individuals (which I will assume to be inconsequential) and refer only to the institutions. Arising from grave recent events,Kenya got into a unique National Accord to literally save the counrty. Two Principals were created (and all Kenyans seem to agree to that). Now that simply means we have two equal leaders. Equal in powers; equal in status; equal in salary and yes,equal in toilets. That is the principle. In reality one principal is however is using all sorts of tricks to be the major principal and diminish the other to a minor principal. Results - fragmentation of the country. Excellent decision by Marende. Indeed,the only good news we have had in a long while. A return to the spirit (note spirit and not necessarily the interpretation and legal tricks thereof) of the accord is necessary.

@ Njunge,

Spot on

The thicker the thigh the sweeter the pie.

@Njung'e,
My argument here is simply this..someone needed to break the impasse'.Now Marende had that opportunity.Whichever way he could have ruled,it would have freed the nation from this ransom. Otherwise the situation as it is will persist and its costing this nation dearly.

Patience Pays in Guaranteed Checks

We all seem to agree on one thing,Mr.marende did his best to save the situation.The prescription kenyans needed most and just on time. However its clear that the measure was temporary,and in that spirit meant to appease ours gods. The wisdom of solomon call for decisive action and nothing else. Its doesnt call for dividing the baby into halves nor does it stipulate that solomon takes the child! Marende did the latter and thats why to me he scores a zero for failure but 100% for curing the symptoms.

...every time i consider the I get a different interpretation - and in sum i do not see if what Marende did solved our problem as a country; and using the analogy of solomon in the good book this is why;

like Solomon i see kenya as the baby under dispute and when the question was put to the two mothers(read principals) of wheather to split this baby(kenya) - in this case both women (RAO & MK) Replied in callous unison -Kata ! so Solomon looked hard in disbelief - asked for afew days until this Tuesday- when the women went on to the streets now arguing on who is to get the right side or the left side as per the coalition agreement of sharing 50:50,- it occured to marende that maybe noe of the two women was the actual mother of kenya as non needed the country alive,so marende chose to hold onto the baby until the another mother is found-

which brings me to the next question,for how long should we kid ourselves that the colition will hold? the only to get another mother is to have mrende hold onto the baby- as we constitute an independent electral commision,redo our constituency borders,then ammend the constitution to either have a presidential system or parliamentary one the dissolve parliament and let the baby-kenya choose a mother who cares.

Having said that -We need to critically look at where marendes ruling leaves us! - are we better off now? or worse off! the ruling undermines the presidency,it decimates the constitution,it underscores the fact that leaders will continue to use violence or the threat of violence(which ever is worse to lord over whatever institutions - here i think we are worse off. -

i feel we have been collectively deceived that we very vulnerable to return to violence as happened in 07/08,i think we have learnt enough but some leaders want us to be afraid!

-my thoughts

...in dollar$ and cents the only score to keep!

As speaker,uphold the law. The rest is a price that has to be payed for the long term good of the nation. Following the rule of law can never be made optional.

You miss the point again. The law made for the good of the people has not changed. Partisan political interests have. That is not sufficient in itself to suspend the rule of law.

Ngalaka spot on!

Marende has the role of interpreting the Standing Orders- the court will not do that for parliament. About the constitution and the national accord,he will not be interpreting them,he will be applying/following their letter and spirit. He does not have the luxury of postponing a decision in parliament on the pretext that it is not his role to interpret the law. Kazi yake ni kufuata sheria vile anaifeel. Effectively he interpreted the law -wrongly and mischievously- but was clever to say he was doing so for purposes of parliament alone.

My goodness gracious someone in SK still thinks Kibaki and raila are equal under the accord!