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Amendments betray spirit of Constitution

For how much longer will the Judiciary and Executive stand aside and watch as Parliament — working under the motto “For the just (sic) government of men” — mutilates the promise that President Kibaki promulgated on August 10, 2010?

Has the thirst for power so blinded the men and women in the august House that they no longer see the forest for the trees?  Is it that because they believe the new Constitution can no longer serve their interests, they now wish to render it irrelevant?

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