Power is a sensitive topic especially in Africa where dictatorship is somehow still reigning.The top seat is one that has a long standing histoy of fightings and diviosn in countries where fairness is not the measure of election but sadly ethnical lines and scrupulous means by shameful contestants.
Kenya has been seen embarking in meaningful efforts to bring the country together and stem out all rots peacefully. This effort was greately marked by the handshake that has since opened the doors for many new positions to the co-operating politicians.
In a recent debatable push,submissions to the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) suggest the clamour to amend the Constitution to overhaul the country’s governance system, including creation of the post of executive prime minister, is gathering steam.
Those who back a referendum to achieve this want powers of the president to be trimmed and be checked by an expanded Executive and a powerful parliamentary system.
Those who back a referendum to achieve this want powers of the president to be trimmed and be checked by an expanded Executive and a powerful parliamentary system.
The nine-member task force chaired by Garissa Senator Yussuf Haji with Prof Adams Oloo deputising him, has so far been to seven counties namely Nairobi, Machakos, Kitui, Tharaka Nithi, Embu, Makueni and Meru.
Presentations by Central Organisation of Trade Unions (Cotu), governors, senators, MPs, Members of County Assembly (MCAs) and the public in general are unanimous that the country’s governance system has to be changed.