As we ruminate over the next face of our constitutional dispensation as a nation, economic success remains our ultimate ambition in the Constitution amendment debate. Kenya aims at 10 per cent per annum economic growth and self-sustenance by 2030. One of the issues identified as plaguing our economic take-off by the Building Bridges Initiative task force is the lack of national ethos and skewed cultural values. Lee Kwan Yew, the former Prime Minister of Singapore, has also stated, "We Asians, have different social values. All constitutional amendments will be of zilch value if we do not fundamentally alter our social and cultural values orientation as a people.

Source: The Star December 29, 2019 21:00 UTC