The Bill of Rights in the Proposed Constitution adequately protect Kenyans

By Kibe Mungai

Prime Minister Raila Odinga is fond of pointing out that if you say everything is a priority, nothing will be a priority in the end. This analogy applies with equal force to rights. If every important wish or interest is categorised as a right, then real rights lose value or utility. Nowhere is this truism starker than in the Bill of Rights under the Proposed Constitution and the heat generated by it is evidence that the struggle for a new constitution could well fail or founder upon the matter.