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Here’s How MPs Voted on the Constitution Amendment Bill (BBI)

The National Assembly held special sittings on Wednesday and Thursday to debate the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) bill among other matters.

Having met the constitution threshold and being passed by over 40 County assemblies, the bill was debated in parliament and passed after having been supported by the majority of the MPs.

In a session yesterday, MPs attained the required two-thirds majority vote in a bid to amend the 2010 Constitution as 235 were in support, 83 voted no and 2 abstained.

The MPs aligned to President Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga mainly supported the bill while those aligned to Deputy President William Ruto voted No.

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Here is the list of how the MPs voted:

NO

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YES

ABSTAIN

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