Executive undermining the Constitution at every turn

This week marked five years since promulgation of the Constitution. At birth it was hailed as a forward looking law and we genuinely believed we had crossed the Rubicon and were destined for the proverbial Promised Land. A land where the rule of law would be supreme, human rights would be more than platitudes, the corrupt would face the music, and we would have control over our immediate destinies by dint of the devolved governments.

Alas! Half a decade later, this is far from the case. I always believed the main criteria during the 2013 election would be an examination of who was best placed to midwife the country into the new dispensation. In true Kenyan fashion we went and made the ICC the core issue and elected people who never believed in the Constitution and in fact had actively campaigned against it. We are therefore generally responsible for the death of the dream of August 27, 2010.