{"id":16440,"date":"2024-09-24T12:44:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T12:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=16440"},"modified":"2024-09-24T12:44:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T12:44:42","slug":"high-court-declares-privatisation-act-2023-unconstitutional-halts-sale-of-kicc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=16440","title":{"rendered":"High Court Declares Privatisation Act 2023 Unconstitutional, Halts Sale of KICC."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Home2-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Home2-980x655.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Home2-480x321.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The High Court in Nairobi on Tuesday ruled that the Privatisation Act 2023 is unconstitutional, citing significant loopholes and a lack of adequate public participation in the legislative process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In its decision, the court declared the entire Act unlawful, noting that public participation is a constitutional requirement that had been inadequately fulfilled. The ruling emphasized that the National Assembly has a duty to ensure citizens are involved in the legislative process, stating, &#8220;The Constitution is the supreme law, and the public must be involved in public participation. The National Assembly does not do the public a favour by inviting them to participate.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the court ruled that the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) is a national monument and a symbol of heritage, and any proposed sale of the iconic building would violate both constitutional and cultural rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case was brought before the court by the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) in December last year, following the government&#8217;s move to privatize six out of eleven state corporations, including KICC, Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC), and New Kenya Cooperative Creameries Limited (New KCC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The High Court in Nairobi on Tuesday ruled that the Privatisation Act 2023 is unconstitutional, citing significant loopholes and a lack of adequate public participation in the legislative process. In its decision, the court declared the entire Act unlawful, noting that public participation is a constitutional requirement that had been inadequately fulfilled. The ruling emphasized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Home2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16442,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16440\/revisions\/16442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}