Waikwa Wanyoike argues that the recent High Court judgement that stopped BBI in its tracks, for now, was more consequential than the Maraga judgement that nullified...
The BBI judgment is therefore historic in two ways. It is historic for its elaboration of basic structure doctrine. But it is also historic because it...
It is not that the 2010 constitution cannot be amended. It is just that the constitution is very sensitive about, abhors and will fight back and...
The constitutional stars have aligned and the entire judiciary has the rare opportunity to speak with one strong voice and assert its constitutional authority.
The High Court joins the family of courts that have adopted a variant of the basic structure doctrine, and has done so in an entirely unique...
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As President Uhuru Kenyatta plots how to woo the recalcitrant Kikuyus back into his political fold, a gleeful Deputy President William Ruto seems to have stolen...
Raila Odinga had categorically stated that no changes would be made to the BBI II document other than punctuation marks but provisions for an imperial presidency...
The issues that Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga have identified as bedevilling the country have already been assigned by the constitution or the law to existing...
The BBI project is a return to autocratic rule, to an imperial president who is not accountable to parliament and to a parasitic model of government.
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...
Even as they exert coercive power in Kenya, members of this class remain largely unrecognised as a class with its own economic interests and one that...
