In his Madaraka Day address, President Uhuru Kenyatta said he has discerned a constitutional moment “to get right what the country got wrong” in the 2010 referendum.
It was hoped that the Constitution would overhaul the political system many had come to view as predatory and set the country on a path to peace and prosperity. But alas, we were wrong: The new Constitution had not drained out the hatred, the scheming, the partisanship, the anger and deep-seated tribalism out of our politics.