Seven-Judge-Bench Expected to Issue BBI Final Verdict.

The seven-Judge is lead by the Chief Justice Martha Koome that is expected to in a great way influence the political landscape in the country.

The BBI as it is now, proposes several changes to the constitution ranging from administrative reforms to legislative reforms.

For instance, the BBI proposes an increase in the county distribution to be increased from 15% to 35%.

The BBI came into the play when President Uhuru Kenyatta reached out to Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga and formed a secretariat that came up with the BBI.

The BBI process has faced losses in the lower courts  with several appeals by its proponents that led to the process getting to the supreme court level.

The Attorney General, President Uhuru Kenyatta, the BBI Secretariat and the electoral agency IEBC moved to the Supreme Court to challenge the decision to quash the BBI push.

In the appeal by the Attorney General, Kihara Kariuki wants the Supreme Court to find that in the basic structure doctrine of the Constitution, all clauses can be amended.

Also, the AG wants the Supreme Court to discard  the High Court and Court of Appeal rulings that the president can be sued, while that the Head of State as a Kenyan citizen has the right to not only participate but equally initiate change to the supreme law through a popular initiative.

On his part president Kenyatta wants the supreme Court to establish the presidential immunity and to protect the president’s right to protect the constitution.

Kenyatta’s application to the Supreme court was followed by ta ruling by the high court judges who ruled that the president can be sued and that the Head of State unprocedurally initiated the changes to the constitution.

The BBI process had proposed to expand the Executive and introduce the position of leader of the official opposition, a prime minister and two deputies while cabinet secretaries could be drawn from Parliament.

The verdict is expected to shape the political landscape in the country with only four months to the elections.