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What the launch of Okoa Kenya says about our democracy

They say bad times bring out the best in us, sometimes. And so it was Thursday when the Opposition CORD launched a draft bill to amend the 2010 Constitution. It was a sign of the maturity of our democracy.

Thursday's was a different cast from that witnessed in the 1990s, when many lost limb and even life in the quest to amend the Constitution of that time. Or in the failed 2005 referendum that was fraught with acrimony within Government.

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