Let’s reason together on the need to amend Constitution

By Ababu Namwamba

At the height of clamour for a constitutional referendum mid last year, I wrote a piece here expressing some serious reservations, informed by two fundamentals. One, no serious effort had been made to objectively, honestly and lucidly identify and isolate the core issues for amendment, in a manner that would not upset the logical frame of the Constitution. Two, the debate had degenerated into a shrill political Ping-Pong, completely oblivious of the reality that in an inherently fractured society such as ours, a mission of this magnitude can only succeed through bipartisanship like the epochal consensus that birthed both our independence and the current second republic Constitution.