The Senate had last evening (Thursday) received more than 121,000 written memoranda from Kenyans rejecting a Bill seeking to extend the term limits for the president and other elected leaders.
Insiders within Parliament said no Bill — including the recently rejected Finance Bill, 2024 that triggered countrywide protests — had received that level of public backlash.
At the time of going to press, the emails were still trickling in, with at least one memorandum being sent per second.
The Bill by Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei has triggered an uproar, with Kenyans opposing it as an attempt by the political class to hold onto power.
The proposed law increases the terms of service for the president, senators, MPs, MCAs and governors from the current five years to seven years.
This is the second attempt to alter the presidential term limit since President William Ruto was elected in 2022.
The first attempt was fronted by
Fafi MP Farah Yakub who sought to
scrap the term limit
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