The Constitutional court on BBI ruling has raised troubling questions about the role of Kenyan professionals in setting up a flawed process. In conversation with Dr...
If South Africa has exported the notion of “transformative constitutionalism 1.0” in the 1990s to the field of comparative constitutionalism, Kenya has provided “transformative constitutionalism 2.0.”...
The landmark High Court judgement against the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) has rightly been hailed as the unprecedented judicial triumph it is. Still, Prof Makau Mutua...
There are implied constitutional limitations by which the constitution should not be amended in a way that changes the basic structure and features of the constitution...
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...
The Kenyan middle classes cannot anymore claim to sit on the fence. We are either for the current unacceptable and unsustainable status quo or we are...
The current calls for a referendum have been proven anomalous to the journey of constitution-making that has been on in the last 20 years. The players,...
As Kenya’s political class considers expanding the executive branch of government, no one seems to be talking about restricting its powers.
Kenya's Executive and Legislature are guilty of a major dereliction of duty that has caused the judiciary to be turned into the primary arena of political...
