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Current Constitution
Section 47 of the current Constitution provides for its amendment in only one way: A Bill in Parliament which must be supported by at least 65 per cent of the Members of Parliament (excluding the Speaker and the Attorney General). If Parliament is for any reason unwilling to consider such a Bill or cannot achieve the 65 per cent support, the Constitution cannot be amended, whatever its merits for citizens.

Proposed Constitution

The Proposed Constitution provides a number of routes for amendment: (more…)

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Mutahi Ngunyi is definitely right when he says that he is anti-reform. His articles over the last two weeks have left not doubt in anyone’s mind.  That said, I shall restrict my commentary to the article published in the Sunday Nation of May 30th 2010.

It is all too well for Mutahi to educate us on why we need to focus on the spirit of the law and that we do not refuse. But to tell us that the spirit of the law fails to encapsulate the letter of that law I find rather mischievous a trail of thought. To say that its spirit is dangerous and deceitful is at best misleading. (more…)

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