President Mwai Kibaki displays a copy of the new Constitution after the promulgation ceremony at Uhuru Park, Nairobi on August 27, 2010. Looking on is then Attorney General Amos Wako.
As an MP in the 10th Parliament I directly participated in the political negotiations and intrigues around the crafting of the 2010 Constitution.
Kenyans wanted to elect their president. So, how do you elect a president by popular vote if (s)he was going to have a ceremonial role?
History is often written in broad strokes, partially because it is difficult to reproduce it in minute detail in a short essay, article or book. This tends to gloss over the hiccups of human processes and paint a fairly romantic picture. And so it is with our written recollections of the processes that led to the Constitution of Kenya 2010.
A number of my friends and I served as members of the 10th Parliament and were, therefore, direct participants in the political negotiations and intrigues around the crafting of the Constitution.
