Post by Ndungu Reuben on Nov 23, 2005 0:32:49 GMT 3
THE CONSTITUTION IS SO PRECIOUS THAT YOU WILL DIE FOR IT.
I take this opportunity to thank all my country people for voting for the referendum.
I have been in exile for more than twenty years waiting for the day we will vote for our own constitution than the Lancaster one.
That opportunity stood before you and called upon you to stand up for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause but unfortunately you voted much more on tribal demarcation than principal. The chickens that former President Moi left out there surely came back home to roost.
Unlike President Moi, President Kibaki accepted the Kenyans’ No verdict to the landmark referendum on the proposed new constitution but he should have known better that, the constitutional vacuum became wider than ever.
President Kibaki is aware that, there is no single President in Africa today, who can go anywhere in the world without being stoned and eggs thrown at him and just because they have taken to themselves a kind of arrogance to power. They’ve ignored the mandates of justice and morality.
I do agree with President Kibaki that there was some ‘fitina’ in the process but still he cannot force a constitution to the people. He has to negotiate but the man seems to have a low opinion to anybody who is not of his class! Excuse me sir; the majority of Kenyans don’t belong to your class and are illiterates.
President Kibaki set out to give Kenyans a new constitution, he must face the fact that there will be tension whatsoever and that the Kenyans will never settle without one. Forget the Bomas one and start a new without the Prime Minister post. What on earth did anybody think that the Kenyans could buy a referendum that was eighty percent right and twenty percent wrong? Rather than sweeping the problem under the carpet like in Rwanda, lets go back to the negotiating table and come up with something clean. Forget the French model of constitution, Most of us have never been to France and cannot even speak French but lets have a Kenyan one
Ndungu Reuben
I take this opportunity to thank all my country people for voting for the referendum.
I have been in exile for more than twenty years waiting for the day we will vote for our own constitution than the Lancaster one.
That opportunity stood before you and called upon you to stand up for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause but unfortunately you voted much more on tribal demarcation than principal. The chickens that former President Moi left out there surely came back home to roost.
Unlike President Moi, President Kibaki accepted the Kenyans’ No verdict to the landmark referendum on the proposed new constitution but he should have known better that, the constitutional vacuum became wider than ever.
President Kibaki is aware that, there is no single President in Africa today, who can go anywhere in the world without being stoned and eggs thrown at him and just because they have taken to themselves a kind of arrogance to power. They’ve ignored the mandates of justice and morality.
I do agree with President Kibaki that there was some ‘fitina’ in the process but still he cannot force a constitution to the people. He has to negotiate but the man seems to have a low opinion to anybody who is not of his class! Excuse me sir; the majority of Kenyans don’t belong to your class and are illiterates.
President Kibaki set out to give Kenyans a new constitution, he must face the fact that there will be tension whatsoever and that the Kenyans will never settle without one. Forget the Bomas one and start a new without the Prime Minister post. What on earth did anybody think that the Kenyans could buy a referendum that was eighty percent right and twenty percent wrong? Rather than sweeping the problem under the carpet like in Rwanda, lets go back to the negotiating table and come up with something clean. Forget the French model of constitution, Most of us have never been to France and cannot even speak French but lets have a Kenyan one
Ndungu Reuben