{"id":2586,"date":"2023-05-29T15:51:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T15:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/?p=2586"},"modified":"2023-05-29T15:51:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T15:51:08","slug":"eac-concludes-national-consultations-for-drafting-the-political-confederation-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/2023\/05\/29\/eac-concludes-national-consultations-for-drafting-the-political-confederation-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"EAC concludes national consultations for drafting the political confederation constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-05-28-at-6.06.16-PM-1024x682.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-05-28-at-6.06.16-PM-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-05-28-at-6.06.16-PM-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-05-28-at-6.06.16-PM-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-05-28-at-6.06.16-PM-1200x800.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-05-28-at-6.06.16-PM.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>by Ronald Njoroge<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The EAC on Sunday concluded national consultations for drafting the political confederation constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EAC secretary general hon.(dr) Peter&nbsp; Mathuki told a &nbsp;press conference in Machakos, Kenya that stakeholders&nbsp; recommended the elimination of borders to allow complete free movement, residency, and trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201ctTe public also called for clear levels of decision making for the eac federation and national governments,\u201d Mathuki said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenya is the third partner state where national consultations conducted after Burundi in January 2020 and Uganda in April 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The committee of experts tasked with drafting the constitution for the proposed eac political confederation was chaired by Uganda\u2019s retired Chief Justice Benjamin Odoki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The objectives of the national consultations for the EAC \u00a0political confederation were to enhance awareness on the ongoing constitution-making process for transforming the EAC into a political confederation as well as obtain stakeholders\u2019 views on their interests and key issues to inform the drafting of model confederation and subsequently a confederal constitution in line with the principle of people-centred regional community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ronald Njoroge The EAC on Sunday concluded national consultations for drafting the political confederation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2588,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions\/2588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}