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Opinion: Referendums are bad ways to settle highly contentious issues

Raila Amolo Odinga Photo:Courtesy

In August 2010, 67 per cent of registered voters in Kenya voted for a new Constitution. Some 33 per cent voted against it. Seven years later, with such overwhelming support for a new constitutional order, the country should be living a happily ever after tale. However, the Kenya of today is far worse off than it was on August 2010. 

In our excitement, the country may have forgotten to change the hearts of the 33 per cent who rejected the 2010 Constitution.

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