Follow the Constitution to avoid pitfalls in agitation for change

Goons loot Qaffe Point during anti-Finance Bill protest in Mombasa on July 2, 2024. [Kelvin Karani, Standard]

As we navigate our way through what has now gained notoriety as ''Gen Z Revolution", we must do quick arithmetic to decipher that which must not be compromised even as we seek greater accountability.

One of the things that set a constitutional democracy apart from autocracy and/or anarchy is the constitutional order. It's that order that fundamentally distinguishes us from the state of nature eloquently described by Thomas Hobbes as 'Short, nasty and brutish'. The constitution as a rule book in a democracy sets out to define how to ensure that a polity is not consumed by anarchy at any one time.