A week from now, the Court of Appeal will deliver its judgement on the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) appeal case. As the country awaits the August 20, 2021 decision, let’s look back at the journey of Kenya’s constitution since independence.
The story of our Constitution and the journey that it has travelled, is a story of political gerrymandering whose modus operandi may be likened to the hunting tactics of Neanderthal man, who laid snares on the path of his fellow man, struck him down and ate him. It is a story about political elites that are driven by self-interest.
In acts of political treachery the political class have managed to camouflage their self-interest in what has all along appeared to be a heart for the people. Through unending...