{"id":7740,"date":"2020-11-02T16:59:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T16:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=7740"},"modified":"2020-11-02T16:59:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T16:59:11","slug":"nairobi-county-to-get-16-new-constituencies-according-to-bbi-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=7740","title":{"rendered":"Nairobi county to get 16 new constituencies according to BBI proposal."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nairobi County will get 16 more Members of Parliament of the 70 additional legislators proposed in the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> \u201cThis morning, the BBI consultative meeting for Members of Parliament (Senate &amp; National Assembly), while meeting in Naivasha; has agreed on a formula for the allocation of the seats by County. Both HE the President &amp; the Rt. Hon. Former PM were present at the talks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/123597044_4049830508365776_4794120042324761412_o-1024x641.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/123597044_4049830508365776_4794120042324761412_o-1024x641.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/123597044_4049830508365776_4794120042324761412_o-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/123597044_4049830508365776_4794120042324761412_o-768x481.jpg 768w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/123597044_4049830508365776_4794120042324761412_o-1536x961.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/123597044_4049830508365776_4794120042324761412_o.jpg 1881w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>President Uhuru together with former prime Minister Raila Odinga<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith the addition of 70 constituencies, we now have 360 MPs to address the requirements of article 81(b, c &amp; d) and article 89(7). The population quota now becomes 132,138 people per MP. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"385\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Nairobi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Nairobi.jpg 385w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Nairobi-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><figcaption>List of new constituencies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"401\" height=\"302\" src=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/nairobi1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/nairobi1.jpg 401w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/nairobi1-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><figcaption><br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis population quota is the basis of 70 additional seats. Counties that are presently under-represented by virtue of having heavy population, will on the basis of population quote of 132,138 people per PM, receive additional MPs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/123606973_4049828628365964_8615338527862942332_o-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/123606973_4049828628365964_8615338527862942332_o-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/123606973_4049828628365964_8615338527862942332_o-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/123606973_4049828628365964_8615338527862942332_o-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/123606973_4049828628365964_8615338527862942332_o-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/123606973_4049828628365964_8615338527862942332_o.jpg 1674w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Photos Courtesy of State house Kenya: Raila on the L and Uhuru on the R<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is great news for Kenyans who have long suffered from under-representation and a number of whom had made submissions to the BBI steering committee on the need for additional representation,\u201d BBI campaign steering committee said in a statement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputy president and Tanga tanga allied Mps skipped the retreat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi County will get 16 more Members of Parliament of the 70 additional legislators proposed in the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) report. \u201cThis morning, the BBI consultative meeting for Members of Parliament (Senate &amp; National Assembly), while meeting in Naivasha; has agreed on a formula for the allocation of the seats by County. Both HE &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7747,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7740\/revisions\/7747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}