Recently, the president of Kenya released the Presidential Executive Order No. 1 of 2020 and it rattled many people.
In this article we collected some of the sentiments raised by Kenyans.
… I did this Tweet two days before Executive Order No. 1 of 2020 issued scrapping the Executive Office of the Deputy President … Hope those who abused me here will now by Christian enough and apologize that I knew more than them!
— Donald B Kipkorir (@DonaldBKipkorir) June 4, 2020
The 2010 Constitution outlawed POWER HOARDING – i.e. the concentration of power in one person/office – which was a prominent feature of the former authoritarian constitutions.
— waikwa wanyoike (@waikwawanyoike) June 3, 2020
POWER HOARDING is what Uhuru has done with The (Revised) Executive Order No. 1 of 2020 pic.twitter.com/yKi13qfir8
Executive Order No. 1 of 2020 issued Wednesday evening caused a stir with some commentators interpreting the changes to mean the Deputy President's office had been downgraded and tucked under the Executive Office of the President. https://t.co/OD6Udxe0na
— Daily Nation (@dailynation) June 4, 2020
The legal import — and practical effect — of Executive Order No 1 of 2020 is to neuter DP @WilliamsRuto and turn him into a mere officer within and under the total command of the Office of the President @ahmednasirlaw @DonaldBKipkorir @kipmurkomen @WMutunga pic.twitter.com/jSkoPBDICh
— Prof Makau Mutua (@makaumutua) June 3, 2020
CJ @dkmaraga is CORRECT — no executive order, including Executive Order No 1 of 2020, or other co-equal arm of the state — can direct, restructure, instruct, or in any way interfere with the judiciary, the JSC, or other independent commissions. Constitutional Law 101 @WMutunga
— Prof Makau Mutua (@makaumutua) June 4, 2020
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Judiciary shouldn’t be appearing in an “Executive order” in the first place