Five years later: Conspiracy against new laws builds up in Kenya

Exactly five years ago today, a wave of optimism swept across the country as the culmination of what pro-reform leaders termed the Second Liberation, symbolically came to fruition at a spellbinding ceremony witnessed by Kenyans and world dignitaries at Nairobi’s Uhuru Park.

The ratification of the new laws and rules of governance and engagement with the leadership that citizens agreed to subordinate themselves to from then and years to come. The ceremony capped the thorny and turbulent years back as Kenyans pressed for a new constitutional dispensation.