BBI: MUTILATION OF THE CONSTITUTION
By Billow Kerrow In essence, there is nothing wrong in amending a Constitution. The famed 1996 South African Constitution has since gone through 17 amendments, made by Parliament to address emerging challenges. What BBI proposes are not amendments to enhance the Constitution but a radical review of the 2010 Constitution. Most proposed amendments are outright irrational, some too mundane to be in the Constitution and yet others, likely to create more mischief and disharmony, and undermine good governance. It seeks to amend 15 out of the 18 chapters of the current Constitution, and amounts to mutilation, not amendments! Our Constitution was the culmination of 20 years struggle by Kenyans that started in early 1990s, following the agitation for restoration of democracy. It involved an intensive bottom-up people-driven process that climaxed in a year-long 3,000–member national delegates conference at Bomas in 2004-2005, representing Kenyans of all walks of life and complete wit