Last week, President Uhuru Kenyatta stated clearly that a referendum is inevitable, if Kenya was to succeed in putting in place the best Constitution. But while we are on this quest, it is important that we do not polarise the country in a similar manner like the 2005 referendum. As a result of that divisive referendum, the country ended up rejecting the proposed law and bloodshed set on the country in the 2007 election. Even as we went to the referendum in 2010, we agreed as a country that the proposed constitution has some 20 per cent defects that we would work on in future. Between 2005-07, the country was polarised politically, and the losers of the referendum went on to win the next elections.

Source: The Star September 01, 2020 02:48 UTC