On August 27, 2010, Kenyans watched with pride as President Mwai Kibaki led a team of dignitaries in promulgation of the new Constitution. It was an occasion marked with pomp and colour and equated by many to a rebirth of the nation, similar only to that of independence night, four decades before.
It was also a culmination of two decades of the clamour for a new Constitution that had been characterised by false starts and loss of lives. Kenyans would be forgiven therefore for having overwhelmingly voted ‘Yes’ for the new Constitution, expectant that the moment was what the country had been waiting for and the answer to the several ills that were facing the nation.