Saboti MP Caleb Amisi/ HANDOUTSaboti MP Caleb Amisi has urged supporters of the Linda Mwananchi movement to be patient with the registration of their political party, saying the process takes time and must follow the law.
Speaking on NTV on Monday, Amisi said party registration had changed and could no longer be handled as it was in previous political eras.
He said the nameLinda Mwananchi had already been reserved two years ago, meaning another political party seeking registration could not simply use the same name or abbreviation.
“That name, Linda Mwananchi, was already reserved two years ago,” Amisi said.
He said the Registrar of Political Parties could not register two parties with similar names or abbreviations and urged those behind the movement to understand the legal process rather than interpret delays as political interference.
“It is a law. It is a law. If there is another reserved name already, you do not have to register two similar parties with the same abbreviation,” he said.
Amisi used the registration of his own People's Renaissance Movement (PM) as an example, saying his party also encountered issues involving an already reserved name.
He said the abbreviation PRM had already been reserved before his group began its registration process, prompting them to use PM.
“By the time we were reserving PM, it's because PRM was already taken,” he said.
He added that the political group that had reserved PRM had not completed the full registration process, but the name remained in the system.
“It is there in the system. It was reserved even before PM came in,” Amisi said.
Amisi said his own party's registration process had taken about one and a half years, illustrating the time involved in establishing a political party under the current system.
“The People's Renaissance Movement has taken one and a half years,” he said.
He said the process began before the death of former ODM leader Raila Odinga, when a group of young people came together seeking to establish a political vehicle through which they could pursue change.
“They are young people who came together. They decided that we need change and we need it through political parties. They registered that party, they reserved it,” he said.
Amisi's comments come after the People's Renaissance Movement was officially launched in Nairobi earlier this month as a political vehicle seeking to participate in the 2027 General Election. The party says it will campaign around economic liberation, economic renaissance and economic justice.
The party was registered earlier this year after completing the registration process with the Registrar of Political Parties. In April, the People's Renaissance Movement had received its certificate of full registration and said it had more than 50,000 members at the time.
At its August launch, Amisi said the party intended to position itself as a key player in the 2027 election and mobilise Kenyans around an economic agenda.
Amisi said the registration process should therefore be understood as a legal procedure that requires parties to meet requirements set under the political parties framework rather than as a process that can be completed within a short period.
