A Senator Now Proposes 4-Year Term Limit for Elected Officials

Kiambu Senator Karungo wa Thang’wa now proposes a four-year term limit for Presidents, MPs, Senators, Governors, and Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) differing with Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei’s 7-year term limit proposal.

During a media briefing on Wednesday 23, in Nairobi, Thang’wa argued that 4-year term limit will encourage the emergence of new leaders as well as make leaders to prioritize the needs of citizens.

According to him, longer terms can lead to entrenched leadership which will adversely affect Kenya’s leadership in the near future, wishing the term limits would even be three years, if so.

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“I ask Kenyans to come out and oppose the proposal to extend the presidential term limit to seven years. Can you imagine that someone is suggesting that we stay the way we are for seven years. Can you tolerate the governance we have and the shenanigans that are happening for another one year, leave alone the seven years that somebody is proposing? We should actually reduce the term to four years. I wish we could go to three years,” he said.

His proposal contrasts that of his colleagues pushing for an extension of Presidential and MP term limits from five to seven years.

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This comes, even as the deadline to collect Kenyans views regarding the Bill seeking to extend term limits for elected officials from 5 to 7 years, has reached today Friday October, 25.

The Bill, proposed by Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei was presented before the Senate House on 26th September, 2024 where it got a first reading.