Draft Law - Alterations Stir Up Hornet's Nest.

Byline: Fred Oluoch

With some landmark amendments to the draft constitution, it will take time before the Parliamentary Select Committee convinces some Kenyans that they did not exceed their mandate. The question now is: Has the PSC deliberately set the stage for the rejection of the draft, just like it happened with the Bomas document?

Buoyed by the almost universal praise for their consensus on the troubling chapter on the Executive the previous week, the political class decided that they could as well write the bulk of the constitution on behalf of other interest groups. The political class is just one among many other interest groups such as women, religious …