then they should use their 'numbers' to stop digging.

if the nominees can be persons who are not affiliated to any side as we kenyans want, they will be hard pressed to reject that person.

if they do, it will be a confirmation to the world that kenyas parliament is up to no good. they will have dug a little deeper. they will effectively hasten the hague process they are so desperate to avoid. then the pm will be relaxing in kibera selling mandazi as they rot in cells.

strategic thinking is clearly not their strong points. brute force is.

I do not see the Solomonic wisdom that our good Speaker applied in this matter. This was natural common sense! As I see it, the current impasse is the cornerstone of the whole implementation of our new Constitution. Kenya won!

Wise ruling. But chances are the politics will only get worse. If the allegiances in parliament stay as they are, the ethnic dimension will rear its ugly head again when the vanquished reject any nominee from the PM's and Mudavadi's home turf. That would be sad cause the country will only become further polarized on ethnic lines. Maybe this is a good opportunity for minority communities to serve in a key position such as CJ as a compromise.

The more reason why we should have some people already fastening their seatbelts aboard Dutch airlines!

Am not a supporter of RAO. but this stupidity we are seeing with his opponents is just off-putting! Cant Kibaki stand and respect the institutions that have made the decisions and tell everyone to shut up and he starts the process the right way? This is where we call for real men to stand up and be counted! UK and WR have nothing for this country..... all they are doing is fighting to have their exposed behinds covered! Trying to fight Marende in parliaments is trying to bring this country into its knees.... why should we allow some few to behave like this and then tell us that RAO is holding this country in ransom? How is he doing it, may be someone needs to let me understand like a small baby?! If there was consultation, then there will be another one! they are not the ones who are consulting... its Kibaki and Raila! And we havent heard kibaki saying he is tired of "consulting"! What is in it for them that they have to make the loudest noise! They are the noisest telling us what to do with our country when they should be leaving us alone and heading to a land far away in the west!

The UK, SKM and WR camp have answers on all national issues. To them anything that goes against their greedy ambitions is definitely ochestrated by Mr Raira. Looking at Uhuru's press briefing yesterday all thier problems emanates from Raila. the O...campo list, the speakers rulings on the fate of the disputed nomination list and had they lost the Kirinyaga By election it would have been Raira. They sleep dreaming of Raira, walk worried about Raira's plot and wake up the following day planning against Raira. A very sad scenario indeed for national leaders.

I may be asking for too much and perhaps too late in the day. How else can we dismantle the coalition government? I suppose by asking IIEC to recount the disputed presidential votes and declare who the actual winner was. This unnecessary circus of brinkmanship will come to a permanent end. Kenya oyeeeeeh!

What Solomonic wisdom? Marende just wasted precious time and worse presents the same problem again. We still do not have clear guidance as to what constitutes consultation yet they are to consult forcefully.

Meanwhile, the JSC was not consulted let alone the issue of gender balance, facts Marende knew all along! wait..what's the speaker's role in parliament?

The whole debate has largely not been if the law was followed but if RAO was consulted - whatever that means. By admission, he never followed the law himself! Sympathizers here some how forget that.

The Principals need to be censured for lack of leadership and clear legal direction be given as to what happens constitutionally if the Principals fail to agree.

@ecstacy

From my understanding if the timelines of implimentation of the constitution are not adhered to, which can arise due to failure of the principals to agree, then anyone is free to go to court and the Court will give a time line within which the same has to be done failure to which parliament is disolved and we go into election.

Solomonic wisdom...tow mothers fighting over a baby. I wonder how the baby is doing.

Baby? What baby? One of the women now wants to stab and kill the other woman.

It was not about the baby. It has never been about the baby. It will never be about the baby. At least to one of the women.