Kenya is a country that lately has seriously been working on itself interms of building more unity and enhancing its potential through straitening leadership this invoves the presidents agenda that have seen him make administrational changes recently.
As referendum talks continue to build up momentum underground, the handshake through the buildingbridges initiative is revealing content under table discussions.
ODM chairman John Mbadi has revealed inside its party’s changes being pioneered for are some that will definately spark debate.
ODM is keen on a hybrid system that will change the Executive structure and create an executive prime minister post. This will give birth to a president and a prime minister who will share power.
“We know there are some proposals that will generate debate.If adopted, some of them will inform the ballot questions at the referendum,” he said.
Mbadi said the hybrid executive system will have a President and a Prime Minister as a way of sharing power and ensuring ethnic inclusivity.This is the same vision shared by President Uhuru Kenyatta when he visited Nyanza recently.
“If the issue of the winner takes it all is the problem each election cycle, then there is need to re look the root cause of the problem and resolve it within legal bounds,’’ he said.
This was informed by hue and cry from the Opposition leadership which claimed the current system only favored some ethnic communities and encouraged exclusion.
The draft of the Constitution produced at the Bomas of Kenya Delegates Conference in 2005 suggested creation of a president, a deputy, prime minister and ministers.
The proposals suggested that the PM would head the Cabinet and would be appointed by the President.This system, Mbadi told journalists, was modeled on a French or South African democracy model where Executive power is exercised by the president and State