By OUMA WANZALAMore by this AuthorCivil society organizations (CSO) have threatened to disrupt a high–level global meeting set for next week in Nairobi, if the government does not gazette and commence the implementation of the 2013 Public Benefit Organisations Act (PBO Act). CSO reference group convener Suba Churchill said they will hold a demonstration at Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) to disrupt the meeting that will take place from November 28 to December 1. The second high level meeting on the global partnership for effective development cooperation is an inclusive forum which helps government, business and civil society to work together to end poverty. He said it is unfair for the government to delay the implementation of an Act that was passed in 2013 and wondered what the government intends to achieve through the delay. Last month, High Court Judge Joseph Onguto ordered Devolution and Planning Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri, to set and gazette the date of entry into force of the Act within 14 days.

Source: Daily Nation November 22, 2016 19:09 UTC