VIDEO: MCAs fight: Proposed educational requirements

Hundreds of current county legislators could be locked out of next year’s General Election, if a proposed amendment to electoral laws is passed by Parliament and assented to law by the president.

One of the proposals seeks to require all county assembly members to be diploma holders to participate in next year’s polls, and degree holders to take part in the 2022 contest.

Opponents of the proposed educational ceilings argue the bill could turn county assemblies into elite clubs of scholars.