Aukot needs multiple skills to cross hurdle on changing the 2010 law

Thirdway Alliance party leader Ekuru Aukot at a past function.

One of the amazing realities in Kenya is that politically defined agendas are so loud that they always drown all other conversations, however progressive the latter may be. Nowhere is this reality clearer than in the current discourse about changing the Constitution. This week there was what appeared to be a strategic leak of the BBI constitutional amendment proposals and the matter made headlines. There was extensive analysis on implications of the proposed changes, even as BBI disowned them.

Many people seemed to assume they were fait accompli. While the BBI drama has been going on, Dr Ekuru Aukot’s Thirdway Alliance has been round the country and has accomplished what a more deep-pocketed ODM was unable to accomplish, the collection of over one million signatures and preparation of a draft Bill for amendment of the Constitution.