{"id":176432,"date":"2024-07-12T18:59:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T16:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-two-kenyans-seek-parliament-dissolution-over-gender-rule\/"},"modified":"2024-07-12T18:59:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T16:59:18","slug":"kenya-two-kenyans-seek-parliament-dissolution-over-gender-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-two-kenyans-seek-parliament-dissolution-over-gender-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Two Kenyans Seek Parliament Dissolution Over Gender Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Nairobi \u2014 Two Kenyan citizens have filed a lawsuit seeking to dissolve Kenya&#8217;s Parliament due to its failure to meet the Two-Thirds Gender Rule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">In their petition, Peter Odhiambo Agoro and Anthony Murimi Wachira want the High Court to declare &#8220;Parliament illegal and unconstitutional in its current composition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">&#8220;This petition discloses overwhelming grounds for declaring Parliament&#8217;s composition as illegal and unconstitutional for being inconsistent with the Constitution,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">According to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407120458.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Two Kenyan citizens have filed a lawsuit seeking to dissolve Kenya&#8217;s Parliament due to its failure to meet the Two-Thirds Gender Rule. In their petition, Peter Odhiambo Agoro and Anthony Murimi Wachira want the High Court to declare &#8220;Parliament illegal and unconstitutional in its current composition.&#8221; &#8220;This petition discloses overwhelming grounds for declaring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":176433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00591558:8aacacca6b17505092bce6bc27f9ca74:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,15860,6029,4688,430,9058,257,2412,7858,7745,254],"class_list":["post-176432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dissolution","tag-gender","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyans","tag-news","tag-parliament","tag-rule","tag-seek","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00591558:8aacacca6b17505092bce6bc27f9ca74:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}