Zoning should never stop democracy from proceeding, SC Mwamu says
By Dickson Odhiambo
April 9,
2026
Zoning should never stop democracy from
proceeding, SC Mwamu says
The issue
of zoning the Country as championed by a section of political parties across
the country should never stop democracy from being exercised fully.
Former
President of the East African Law Society Senior Counsel James Aggrey Mwamu says
there have been such arrangements by some political parties in the past
elections and it has never prevented democracy from proceeding by various
political parties across the country.
Addressing the
press at his office in Kisumu, Mwamu said political parties do make agreements
prior to the polls and such arrangement can include the issue of zoning where a
political party feels it dominates a particular area, adding that there is no
problem with that.
Mwamu says
ODM and UDA can also make such agreements and there is no problem with it at
all.
“Political
parties can make agreements that include the issue of zoning but that does not
stop anybody from running on another political party or as an independent
candidate,” Mwamu says.
The Former
President of the East African Law Society says zoning should not affect others
political parties but only the ones in that particular agreement.
“You can
come with a different political party and run for a political seat where zoning
is done so long as it is not one of the parties in the political agreement,”
Mwamu adds.
He says the
Members of Orange Democratic Movement Party may have an issue with the zoning because
such issue in the past used to rig some candidates out of the race in cases
where direct tickets given.
Mwamu’s
sentiments comes barely a few days after a section of ODM party Members of
Parliament roots for zoning in areas where the party is popular and this has
attracted mixed reactions across various political divide.
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