[People's Parliament/Bunge La Mwananchi]

About us

People’s Parliament of Kenya (Bunge La Mwananchi Kenya) is a people’s initiative providing a platform for discussions, by ordinary members of the public of many issues including political, social and economics. The oldest gathering has met everyday for the last 15 years at the Jeevanjee Gardens Park in Nairobi. Other people’s parliaments exist in other parts of Kenya.

The most recent articles

The Grand Collusion in the Grand Coalition Government

The 2008-2009 Budget: Squander, pillage, gluttony, corruption and misappropriation of fund at its grandest

Thursday 6 November 2008 by Admin

The 9th Parliament was very lazy. The 10th Parliament is lazier! The 2008-2009 budget is an insult to the people of Kenya. Only the proposals of 6 out of 40 ministries were discussed in Parliament. The rest of the budget was passed without a single discussion. Having looked at it, we now (...) > continue

NO JUSTICE NO PEACE: DEMANDING AN END TO IMPUNITY IN KENYA

THE 10TH PARLIAMENT MUST RESPECT THE NATIONAL ACCORD- ITS OUR CONSTITUTION!

Thursday 6 November 2008 by Admin

Signed by President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga, the National Accord created not only the monstrous Grand Coalition Government, but also several commissions in a bid to forestall, in the future, the speedy slip to lawlessness and violence that led to a massive loss of life, limb (...) > continue

CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS FOR THE PEOPLE OF KENYA

The reforms that make sense to the people of Kenya, not just to the political elite

Friday 9 November 2007 by Admin

For more than a decade now, the people of Kenya have been agitating for a complete overhaul of the Constitution of Kenya. Despite several efforts towards the review process, a new constitution is yet to be realized. The political elite has successfully mismanaged the review process to the (...) > continue

The Plan to stop Kenya’s rogue parliament’s gratuity theft and its assault on press freedom

Friday 10 August 2007

A joint statement of the Civil Society in Kenya and former Members of the Kenya National Assembly > continue

Protest against pay-off to Kenyan MPs

Members of People’s Parliament have called on Kenyans to join in a mass protest against the planned pay-off to Members of Parliament

Monday 30 July 2007

The members of the 9th Parliament have shown a great deal of greed in the past 5 years, increasing their salaries whimsically and constantly awarding themselves hefty pay-offs at the expense of the Kenyan tax-payers. The MPsfrom a country in which more than 60% of the population lives on less (...) > continue