National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi was on Tuesday morning embroiled in a bitter exchange of words with city lawyer Ahmednasir Abdullahi on Twitter.
The spat began after Ahmednasir criticized Speaker Muturi’s comments on the process of implementing the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) report. On Monday, Muturi stated that Parliament standing orders do not allow the report to be debated in the house in its current form, unless it is converted to a bill or presented by the President as a government policy document.
“If Speaker Muturi was an AVERAGE lawyer I would have taken his READING of the Constitution very Seriously…fortunately no one has EVER taken the FOOLISH risk of relying on his interpretation of the law…,” lawyer Ahmednasir tweeted.
But in a quick rejoinder, Speaker Muturi asked Ahmednasir to “stop being personal and be civil”. In reply, Ahmednasir accused Muturi of subverting the law in his term as National Assembly speaker. “I am civil Sir…it is fair to state Sir as I have done that your tenure as Speaker Sir is defined by a TOTAL SUBVERSION of the constitution…that is your RECORD Sir…that is your LEGACY Sir and Mr. Speaker Sir..you can NEVER run away from that…Sir,” wrote Ahmednasir.
Speaker Muturi then challenged Ahmednasir to point out specific cases where he allegedly subverted the constitution.
“Mr. Speaker Sir, I need a year and the help of a dozen researchers to write down all the instances you DELIBERATELY BREACHED the constitution…Twitter can’t do justice, Sir,” Ahmednasir hit back.
In response, Muturi accused Ahmednasir of working at the behest of an unnamed person. “Please engage them. Don’t be personal. I know you are just a proxy,” Muturi noted.
The comment appeared to have rubbed Ahmednasir the wrong way, who hit back by saying that Muturi would have died a drunkard were it not for President Kenyatta’s intervention in 2013.
“Proxy to whom? I am from Mandera…self made. NO ONE in power ever made me a favour…Unlike you who would have died DRUNKEN in SIAKAGO…if it wasn’t for the KINDNESS of H.E Uhuru. You had zero cent in your account when JUBILEE was elected in 2013…today you are a BILLIONAIRE,” Ahmednasir retorted.
Aha Medina her is below an…
Aha Medina her is below an average legal officer; a lawyer of the lowest credentials and caliber, just overrated for talking some marbled junk no humanity to understand! Medina her has no right to insult a well learned lawyer of high credentials like Mr Muturi – Mr Medina – Muturi gave you the final word that BBI belongs to the people of Kenya! That final word is not about to change any time in the near and far future – and yes, your corrupt buddies in parliament are not well endowed enough to make the right decisions on BBI. As such, we will not stop until all Kenyans hold a referendum to vote on the BBI’s thorny issues. An average lawyer of your acumen can not be trust to decide on hot button issues as those encamped in the BBI report. So, you can insult the whole northern frontier but our stand will not be shaken!!
Did Amedenaher lie to us…
Did Amedenaher lie to us that he is a self made guy from the shifter Mandela? And so you think you know it all and no body can counsel you? You are now treading on the Ruto footsteps – all knowing and pretty damn!! Give us a break Mr.?!
@Ahmednasir still lives in…
@Ahmednasir still lives in an Ivory Tower, while the rest of Kenyans live in the real World. We don’t care about Legal jargon, or who can outwit the other in legal jargon. We don’t care if Muturi could have died a drunkard sometime ago, we care about what he is doing now, because he is still alive. That is all that matters, as of now. Academics and Scholarship are useless, if they are only useful for classroom arguments, but do improve another human being’s life. My two cents.
It’s bad that these two…
It’s bad that these two learned friends had to present such a picture. Respect and decency is lacking in Ahmednasir’s posts.
As for the direction BBI should take, my considered opinion is that the current parliament is too divided to be trusted with such a delicate and important national issue. And since MPs work for us,why would anyone have a problem with Kenyans doing the job directly?