A new set of laws is in place. It’s a done deal after months of brokering. What’s more exciting is that the laws came by chiefly in a peaceful manner. Though there were pockets of criminal activities in the run up to voting, they were not of huge impact. Such criminalities represent humanity and true peace, just as Mahatma Gandhi said peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.
It’s post-referendum Kenya and it really feels good now we are back to a fresh start. Any beginning is always sweet, especially when wrongs were committed before. It’s another chance for Kenyans to push the Kenyan-bicycle pedal rightly and carefully so as to be safe from mistakes committed in the past.
When celebrations are over and normalcy returns it’s important to understand that a constitution however glorious or angelic it may be is a mere compilation of writings by men; is never perfect; never wholly representative and therefore whatever it is put on the table by the majority MUST be adhered to by all even those aggrieved by it.
What remains now is the arduous task of implementing it. The mere writings call for a serious and sober parliament for them to be felt. The august house is required to come up with dozens of legislations to tighten these writings; otherwise they might forever remain as such.
Focus now shifts to members of parliament and Kenyans must keep their fingers crossed until the last legislation to backup the constitution is passed. Please pray for intelligence and sobriety to reign in this house so that good bills are brought in, otherwise a Recall Bill may be made difficult enough for constituents to call back their lazy and ineffective Mp.
Speaking of recalling Mps, a bill overseeing this ought to be clear and adjectival enough. It should say of clear characteristics of a legislator who should be kicked out of parliament. Such traits should not miss greed, abruptly pot-bellied, anonymous in the village, too silent in the House, polygamous and randy.
Other bills should be drafted too with the welfare of wanjiku in mind and nobody else.
Anyway, after all was said and done, Kenya emerged from the historic plebiscite peaceful. It’s so sweet to know this, we did it peacefully, I love this. Thumbs up fellow Kenyans!
The international community and especially the foreign press that often brag of their superiority mostly in reporting civil wars, famine and hunger, and coups in Africa but never on successful elections or economic progress in Botswana for example, were waiting in the periphery to savour bloodshed. None this time and we are not apologetic at all!
The western media frequently allergic to good things in Africa as they are attracted to bad stuff did not give any prominence to the passage of the draft laws as they enthusiastically reported the post-election violence. They always do that, so nothing new, anyhow, peace was the winner not the Yes camp. Kudos Kenyans!
Just by the way...
* William Ruto’s assertion that the slightly less than six million voters, who voted for the draft constitution, were only 40% of registered voters does not hold any water. Percentage calculations take consideration of those who vote, those who don’t have no say and they are understood to have resigned to any eventuality. So trying to say they would have had some influence is crap.
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