Don’t let court slow review momentum

The two-decade long road to a new constitution has been long and arduous. It has claimed many scalps, left even more crusaders bankrupt, embarrassed, maimed, misunderstood, many lawyers richer and many other people just plain confused.

The last attempt was all-inclusive and brought peasants, professionals, gold-diggers, religious leaders, interpreters and even village headmen to Bomas of Kenya. Then it was assumed that with all the heads banging together, no one would surely stand in the way of whatever document they hammered to replace the Independence Constitution. How mistaken they all proved to be.