10 years on, we still long for the promise of 2010 Constitution

Next week on the 27th of August 2010 we celebrate 10 years of the Constitution of Kenya. There is no better time to reflect on the gains made and the regressions that Kenya has undergone since those heady days when most of us naively believed we had crossed into constitutional Canaan.

The passage of the new Constitution only ranks second in Kenya’s major achievements, upped only by our independence in 1963. In 2010, after many years of sometimes bloody struggle, the Kenyan State was constitutionally re-engineered. The hitherto 'imperial presidency' was shorn of many of the powers it had inherited from the colonial governor.