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All our constitutional reform initiatives have been on roller coaster

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Constitution dummy being positioned during President William Ruto's swearing-in at Kasarani in September 2022. [Denis Kibuchi, Standard]

Since the early 1990s when multi-party democracy was restored, political compromise and dialogue have solved crises that endanger peace and stability. Whenever the country is on the brink of chaos, the political class must come together and negotiate deals that typically restore some degree of normalcy.

This was the case in 1997 when the Inter-Parties Parliamentary Group (IPPG) mechanism was established in response to nationwide protests that frequently turned violent due to police brutality.

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