This archive report was first published on 3 December 2019.
On December 2, 2019, National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi sparked a heated debate on the implementation of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) report, stating that Parliament's standing orders do not allow the report to be debated in its current form, unless it is converted to a bill or presented by the President as a government policy document.
Lawyer Ahmednasir Abdullahi responded to Muturi's comments, criticizing his interpretation of the Constitution and accusing him of subverting the law during his tenure as Speaker.
‘If Speaker Muturi was an AVERAGE lawyer I would have taken his READING of the Constitution very Seriously...fortunately no one has EVER taken the FOOLISH risk of relying on his interpretation of the law...,’ lawyer Ahmednasir tweeted.
Speaker Muturi then challenged Ahmednasir to point out specific cases where he allegedly subverted the constitution, but Ahmednasir hit back, saying that he needed a year and the help of a dozen researchers to write down all the instances.
The exchange took a personal turn when Ahmednasir accused Muturi of being a billionaire thanks to President Kenyatta's intervention in 2013, and Muturi responded by accusing Ahmednasir of being a proxy for an unnamed person.
