President Mwai Kibaki displays Kenya’s Constitution during its promulgation at Uhuru Park on August 27, 2010. Looking on is Attorney General Amos Wako. [File, Standard]
Kenya is in the throes of another agonised constitutional debate. Proponents of the new push for amendments argue that the time is right to cure deficiencies in the 2010 Constitution. Yet that document is only a little over 10-years-old and followed a referendum that ushered in the most comprehensive constitutional reforms since independence in 1963.