Let President Uhuru Kenyatta now take charge of referendum

NAIROBI: The 2010 Constitution may have had an overwhelming support among Kenyans but I will submit that the document was seriously flawed in several aspects.

 

The drafters were keener on clipping the powers of an imperial presidency more than the factors that would lead to its successful implementation. While significantly dismantling the status quo, the drafters forgot the cost factor. The current law is utterly expensive to implement. The economy is bleeding from demands of a rising population, need for infrastructural development and provision of basic human rights such as access to health, education and security.