We're better off with the Constitution as it is than allow reform claw backs

Having served with the Commission responsible for overseeing initial implementation of the Constitution, I am alive to the inadequacies and deficiencies of our Constitution. I should therefore be on the forefront of supporting proposed changes to the document and applauding the initiative now commonly known as the BBI, whose primary objective appears to be working towards amendment of the Constitution. But I have lived in Kenya long enough to grow a healthy skepticism about “reforms” owned and driven by the Executive or Parliament.

I was there in 1990 when the KANU Review Committee headed by the late Prof George Saitoti went round the country collecting views on needed reforms. Its conclusion was that Kenya was not ready for comprehensive reforms. Despite Kenyans cry for change, the Executive wanted change it could manage. It took the unfortunate events of 2008 to change the narrative and give birth to the current Constitution.