Constitution
May 29 2011, ARVIND K.PANDEY

The Congress led governments have always tried to weaken the Judicial system. It’s no secret that most of our Constitutional bodies were reduced to theater of absurdities whenever Congress governments came at the helm of power. The various...

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Robb, Derby
One of the points agreed in the Global Political Agreement was that a new ‘people-driven’ constitutional would be crafted following various numerous...
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Here’s a novel idea: reading the document you actually swear to uphold. On the first day of the new Congress, or the first day of business actually, the new...
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I am almost smiling at the response Mugabe has lodged with regard to Tsvangirai’s court case against him, insofar as the President is the one with the problem, as...
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Amazon, an online retailor, has consented to the pressure of the federal government to shut down Wikileaks use of its computers: Amazon.com Inc. forced WikiLeaks to...
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The original intention was to have a people-driven constitution drawn up and then presented to the population in a referendum. But ZANU PF want nothing of the...
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Duncan Mikae, Bungoma
Our Constitution did not only bring us the working plan of great counties under representative government. There is embedded in it also the vital pillar of liberty and...
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I have said many times that the vacant seats in the Zimbabwean parliament have not been put forward for election. It is my understanding that there is a time frame for...
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I would like to take this opportunity on behalf of my fellow Kenyans to wish our prime minister quick recovery after his hospitalization at one of the country’s...
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.Kenya is on high alert over a security threat after an explosion that has so far claimed five while 75 others are nursing serious injuries at the country’s top...
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A lot has been said by many,some church leaders have said that this constitution will allow abortion,some leaders have said this constitution is going to take away...
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Quest for a new constitution has entered homestretch with the publication of the proposed law by the country’s attorney general Amos Wako. Its my wish and prayer...
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When I read the newspapers these days I don’t fail to get one common message ;’The Church’s dislike of the proposed constitution’.This reminds me of the history...
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While we talk on matters constitutional, we have to understand the path that we have taken in the review process. With respect, I will not be fair enough if I will...
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Parliament debated late into the evening to pass the draft constitution without a single amendment. President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga were in the House...
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Most of us born in India grow thinking the Constitution of India gives us the right to move to any part of India since its our constitutional right to do so. This was...
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Twenty-nine years ago today I fulfilled an ambition I had held since I was a very young boy. I joined the Zimbabwe Republic Police… From my book “Without...
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Abortion has been and remains to be an emotive issue and even after the PSC agreed to remove the clause that said that life begins at birth during their deliberations...
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I was a little surprised that The Herald would publish a story like this. The report is critical of the Mugabe led government and The Herald is historically the bearer...
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Kenya is set to get a new constitution and as the parliamentary Select Committee on constitutional review winds up its work, its clear that no jokes... this time Kenya...
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Today we have celebrated our sixty first Republic Day and of course we feel proud of all that we have achieved in the past sixty years of our independence.Its true that...
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The Zimbabwean war veterans are hard work. They make demands - and if those demands are not met, they take the law into their own hands and things get broken, and...
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President Obama and his fellow Democrat comrades have a new plan for health care: individual mandates. During the campaign it was Obama who attacked the idea of...
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The Peace Committee, Oslo, is requested not to allow the horror-struck American Journalists to run a risk amidst their Constitution. “The award of the peace prize to...
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Andrew, Hollywood
HRC has hijacked this notion of the rights of voters to be heard. Someone correct me if I\’m wrong, but this is absolute horseshit!There is no mention of...
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Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal reads the oath of office during the inaugural meeting of the drafting committee in Katmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008. Nepal’s lawmakers formally started drafting the country’s new constitution Tuesday...