Kenyan MPs as the weakest link in the New Order

In 2010, Kenyans adopted a new Constitution with the desire to redefine the relationship between citizen and State and a restructuring of the architecture of government. We felt particularly compelled to vote in a new constitution because of how power and authority under the old dispensation had been abused.

In almost four decades of implementing the independence Constitution, numerous ‘infamous’ amendments were made, most of which watered down the supreme law of the land and concentrated power in the executive branch of government. For instance, recall that in the early days of the post-independence era, at the stroke of a pen Kenya switched from a federalist to a centralised state. Two decades thereafter, in similar fashion, democracy was shelved and Kenya officially became a one party state.