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Why the people must now exercise their sovereign power directly

Azimio la Umoja leader Raila Odinga during a past event in Seme, Kisumu County. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

The framers of the Constitution were deliberate in bestowing sovereign power on the people to exercise directly or through their democratically elected representatives.

The Constitution is among those regarded as most progressive in the world that guarantees basic human rights and gives citizens enormous powers to determine how they are to be governed.

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