A Slap in The Face?

When did our much-maligned current constitution receive a makeover? During the Moi era, Kibaki and his cohorts were at the forefront of agitation for a new constitutional dispensation. Remember the arguments over the "constitutive power" of Kenyans and Kivutha Kibwana's contention that we were not necessarily bound by the dictates of a patently unfair constitution? Remember Kibaki's own push for the IPPG agreement that had no basis in our constitution?

Now we are told that there is nothing really wrong with the document (the constitution) and that we should faithfully abide by it. I remember that prior to the election, I stated on this blog that Kibaki did not give us democratic space but rather was a beneficiary of it. I further argued that he was actually in the process of rolling it back. That much was obvious way before the stolen election and continues to be affirmed by the statements attributed to him and his mandarins in PNU.

The President's flirtation with (some might say marriage to) constitutional reform is most definitely over.

On the Road to Peace

Tribal Gerrymandering

Once again our MPs have outdone themselves in their disregard for the issues affecting their constituents (a good number of whom are IDPs) while at the same time bemoaning the plight of their kinsmen in far away constituencies. They are going out of their way to prove just what a sorry bunch of tribalists they are. And in advocating the return of IDPs, not to the homes they have owned and lived in for decades, but to their "ancestral homes " (whatever that means) , the Dishonourable Members of the Disgust House reveal their intention of creating ethnically pure and homogeneous constituencies where they can be undisputed tribal chieftains. Shame on them. And shame on all of us who voted for them!