Public voice

What Kenyans Are Saying

Two ways Kenyans speak to Parliament: the petitions they file with it, and the comments they leave under the big newsrooms’ own videos about it — see exactly how both work.

Two lanes, never added together. A petition is a formal request on Parliament’s own record, so the petitioner is named because Parliament names them, and it carries no mood score — a request is not a tone. A comment is a member of the public speaking on a newsroom’s channel: no handle or name is ever shown, the channel is always credited, and no average is shown from fewer than 5 comments. People who comment choose to comment, so that lane is not a poll and never becomes a representative sample of Kenyans. Both are kept separate from Media Coverage Tone, which measures newsrooms rather than the public.

The dates narrow both lanes. Subject and topic narrow the comments only — every petition is by definition a request to Parliament, so there is no wider set of them to show.

What Kenyans have asked Parliament to do

Petitions filed with Parliament, newest first, read from Parliament’s own petitions record. Each is a formal request from a named member of the public, and each carries no mood score — we never label a request positive or negative. Open a petition for its full text, the committee it went to, and the member who presented it.

What it asks aboutPetitionerFiledWhere it has got to
Denial of access to irrigation water from the Tsavo River by Gicheha Farms Limited in Taveta Constituency Residents of Sir Ramson Lumi and Irrigation Villages in Taveta Consti… 8 Oct 2026 Committed to committee
The delayed upgrade of Egoji Teachers College to a University College Igoji Community Welfare Forum 8 Oct 2026 Committed to committee
Allocation and registration of public land belonging to Arithi Self-Help Group to private parties during the demarcation and adjudication process in … Arithi Self-Help Group 7 Oct 2026 Committed to committee
Governance failures, financial irregularities, administrative mismanagement and systemic challenges facing Vocational Training Centres (VTCs) in Vihi… Mr. Eliud O. Barasa 1 Oct 2026 Committed to committee
Environmental compliance in Kilifi County Residents of Watamu Ward in Kilifi North Constituency, Kilifi County 27 Aug 2026 Committed to committee
Compliance by Safaricom PLC with statutory and constitutional obligations relating to SIM Card deactivation and reassignment Mr. Thomson Kerongo 20 Aug 2026 Committed to committee
Harmonization of salaries and allowances of veterinary doctors and veterinary interns with those of medical doctors Referred to the Departmental Com… Dr. Kelvin Osore on behalf of the Kenya Veterinary Association 19 Aug 2026 Committed to committee
Human wildlife conflict occasioned by invasion of vervet monkeys in Nyweri Community of Meru County Referred to the Departmental Committee on Touris… Mr. Gilbert Mututa on behalf of Nyweri Community of Meru County 19 Aug 2026 Committed to committee
Unfair lending and asset financing practices by Mogo Auto Limited Referred to the Petitions Committee and Departmental Committee on Finance and Nati… Mr. Charles Gichira on behalf of Kenya Boda boda Riders and Owners As… 18 Aug 2026 Concluded
Review of Mt. Ng’iro Forest boundaries, human settlement, livelihoods and historical land injustice in Samburu County The Petitioners, C/o Mr. Samuel Lalaono 6 Aug 2026 Committed to committee
Unregulated establishment of commercial fish cages in Mbita, Mfangano, Rusinga Islands, Sindo, Gingo and Ngodhe in Lake Victoria The Petitioners ℅ Sen. Moses Kajwang’, MP 5 Aug 2026 Committed to committee
Limitation of tenure of nominated Members of County Assemblies (MCAs) to one term Mr. Laban Omusundi and other Petitioners 15 Jul 2026 Reported on
Re-introduction of the Elections (Amendment) Bill Mr. Mohamed U. Alasow 15 Jul 2026 Reported on
Request to the Senate to address grievances by residents and informal traders of Laini Saba Market operating in Laini Saba and Woodley Wards in Kibra… Mr. Victor Wamae Mungai 14 Jul 2026 Committed to committee
Requesting regulatory intervention to save Family Health Options Kenya (FHOK) Ms. Martha Adundo and Other former employees of Family Health Options… 16 Jun 2026 Committed to committee
Establishment of a National Police Firearms Digital Detection and Tracking System Mr. Emmanuel Kelly Ojoo 11 Jun 2026 Concluded
Illegal freezing of salaries, and the exclusion of 313 seconded Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) Programme Officers from Statutory Pensio… Mr. Peter Makara Ngure and other Petitioners 11 Jun 2026 Committed to committee
Re-introduction of the Landlord and Tenants Bill Mr. Dickson Githaiga Muchemi 10 Jun 2026 Committed to committee
Historical land injustices and the proposed conversion of public land (LR No. 25005, Kericho/Samburet) to community land for human settlement Mr. Kipkoech arap Chumo and others representing the Chang Kelek Kipsi… 10 Jun 2026 Committed to committee
Alleged discrimination of secondary school deputy principals on career progression by the Teacher Service Commission Referred to the Departmental Co… Mr. Maurice Otieno Ouma on behalf of affected Deputy Principals in th… 10 Jun 2026 Committed to committee
Strengthening oversight, transparency and intergenerational equity in public debt governance Ms. Beatrice N. Waiyaki and others representing Kiambu County Empower… 9 Jun 2026 Concluded
Unpaid salary arrears and terminal dues to the former employees of Uchumi Supermarket PLC Philomena Oburenyi, Chairperson of the former Uchumi Staff Welfare As… 9 Jun 2026 Concluded
Amalgamation of the Civil Service Non- contributory Pension Scheme and the Public Service Superannuation Fund Mr. John Serem and 2 others on behalf of the Kenya National Associati… 4 Jun 2026 Concluded
Determination of Kipkabus public forest land claim Referred to the Departmental Committee on Environment, Forestry and Mining The Principal Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and … 28 May 2026 Committed to committee
Succession law and administration of estates in Kenya Eng. John Mruttu, former Governor, Taita Taveta County 28 May 2026 Concluded

Showing the 25 most recent of 246 petitions on the record for this Parliament. See all petitions.

What Kenyans are saying under the news

No comments have been collected yet. We have not started collecting comments from under news videos, so this section is empty. What the news media report about Parliament is summarised in Media Coverage Tone.

In their own words

Comments are reprinted without the commenter’s name or handle, and each one says which channel’s comment section it came from and under which video. Comments screened as insulting, vulgar or too short to carry a meaning are not reprinted — they still count in the figures above.

No comments have been read yet, so there is nothing to quote. The reason is stated above.

Where this comes from

We read the comment sections under videos published by Kenyan broadcasters on their own YouTube channels — every video they publish, not only the ones about Parliament. A comment takes its subject from the video it sits under, not from its own words: “shame on them” names nothing, but under a Housing Levy story it is plainly about the Housing Levy. That stored subject is what the Subject control above narrows on. Each comment is scored positive / neutral / negative by an AI language model, and is separately screened for insults, vulgar language and threats — in English, Kiswahili and Sheng — before it is stored. The screening result is written once, at that point; this page only reads it.

Facebook and Instagram comments on newsrooms’ pages are not included: Meta’s API returns comments only to the owner of the page, and we do not scrape pages we were not given access to. Replies on X are not included either — reading them needs a paid X API tier that this site does not buy.

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