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Why Passaris' Bill on public demos is unconstitutional

Gen-z youths in Kitengela protest to mark one year since their colleagues were killed as they protested Finance Bill 2024. [ Jenipher Wachie, Standard]

The Public Order (Amendment) Bill 2025, proposed by Nairobi Woman Representative Esther Passaris, purports to refine the regulation of public demonstrations in Kenya.

However, beneath its bureaucratic language lies a serious threat to the democratic freedoms enshrined in the Constitution, particularly Article 37, which guarantees every person the right to peaceably and unarmed, assemble, demonstrate, picket, and present petitions to public authorities.

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