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How we got an imperial Parliament in our quest to tame the presidency

Kamotho Waiganjo

The clamor for the overhaul of the Constitution was galvanized inter alia by a desire to tame the “imperial Presidency”, a phrase coined by the doyens of the second liberation.

It defined all that was offensive in the old constitutional order -- an all-powerful, unchecked, overbearing, unaccountable presidency.

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