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Parliamentary Select Committee chairman Abdikadir Mohammed (centre), vice chairman Ababu Namwamba (right) and committee member Jeremiah Kioni in Naivasha on Thursday. The committee is expected to hand over the amendments they made on the revised harmonised draft constitution to the Committee of Experts on Friday. Photo/HEZRON NJOROGE

Parliamentary Select Committee chairman Abdikadir Mohammed (centre), vice chairman Ababu Namwamba (right) and committee member Jeremiah Kioni in Naivasha on Thursday. The committee is expected to hand over the amendments they made on the revised harmonised draft constitution to the Committee of Experts on Friday. Photo/HEZRON NJOROGE 

By PETER LEFTIE
Posted  Thursday, January 28  2010 at  22:30

“We have had to make very serious political decisions on major issues such as the Executive, the method of representation such as the one-man-one-vote or one-kilometre-one-vote, the devolution and the nature of government. We have not had to vote on any one single issue and I salute my colleagues,” said Mr Mohammed.

He announced that PSC had left the chapter on the Republic intact, save for deleting the clause stating that Nairobi shall be Kenya’s capital city. “That would have meant that any time we want to move the capital from Nairobi, we would need a constitutional amendment,” he said. The PSC will return the revised harmonised draft constitution to the Committee of Experts on Friday afternoon.

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