@Pastor,
Wacha siasa ya hela mbili!!.......Wako will be negotiating for commonwealth drafters and not English drafters.We all know Zimbabwe,Uganda,Rwanda and Ghana are in Africa.

@Njunge'e my question is why should we import people from EU,US etc...I thought the AG and the justice ministers have been drafting bills every other day. Isnt that enough experience? I thought someone was insisting that we need purely homegrown document..... I thought that is the reason why we have a Kenyan Law school where all our law students must go through despite having their law degree in other countries...that is what I thought...

Experience my foot!! Mr. PM, lets make this Kenyan by involving Kenyans! How many bills have been drafted in the parliament for the last 47 years by Kenyans.

This thing, about running to foreigners does not impress me much

Anybody who thinks we have legislative draftsmen worth their name in this country ought to read the 5 employment-related statutes that were enacted in 2007 or more recently the Alcoholic Drinks Control Act, 2010. All pieces of legislative crap.

Note: I am not opposed to the intent and purpose of the abovementioned statutes - but the translation of such intent and purpose into law has, to say the least, has been done very incompetently.

I can say without any fear of contradiction that competent legislative draftsmen in Kenya are not more than 5, yes Five!

However much we may be not like South Africans, esp the whites, we need to tap the experienced legal drafts(wo)men there. The new Constitution is in many ways similar to South Africa's (we have copied large sections of the South African Bill of Rights almost word for word, for example). South Africa has had to draft numerous new statutes to implement the post-apartheid 1994/96 Constitution and am sure we could benefit from their experience.

Legislative drafting is an art, almost a science in fact,and you got to know what you are doing - possession of a law degree is far from enough, possession of a masters in legislative drafting is a step forward - but you have to actually draft,draft and draft to be good at the job. And most importantly, you must be a master of the English language and grammar period!

help needed? yes. but must be a team with max 30% foreign 'experts'. goal should be to impart knowledge. not outsourcing.

else, i see another overrated american consultancy taking vacations in the bahamas on our taxes for the next 200 years.

and can the indians, brazilians, russians or even the communist chinese also help? i doubt the anglo saxon alliance will want to share the glory (euphemism for government contracts).

mjuaji wa stocks, don't think with emotions!!!!

@Mcreggae...wewe...kwani hiyo ni tanakali ya sauti ama ni mnyambuliko wa kitenzii....

i didnt know there are people who think with their emotions....

I thought watu wote hutumia brain...

Yaani nakwambia am not using my emotions to think....


But i understand what you r saying anyway..

This is typical Kenyan approach!!! We [as a Nation] don't think ahead!! Our so called leaders are absolutely bure kabisa!!! We have be working on this new constitution for 20yrs and nobody said "Wait a minute, when we finally get a new constitution, we will need this many drafters. Why don't we get some people trained, have them work - on some sort of 'attachment' basis - in countries that are busy drafting their laws so that when we finally have a new constitution we can draft the laws in-house."

Absolutely bure kabisa. Even the AG himself did not foresee this? Kenya Law Society? All this NGOs, pressure groups, civil society, bla bla bla?

@McReggae - Which one is 'cheaper', buying a house or renting? Which one would you rather do? This is not the end of drafting laws. Will we always outsource?

By the way, if requested government to government, it would have cost us almost nothing! The US and other 'development partners' have given us and are still giving us money 'to support reforms'. This is a bill they would have gladly picked! That is if we must be helped. But we can definitely afford it - with all the billions we loose in corruption it would sound like pocket change!

Maichblack, I thought it was upon an individual to chose whatever course he/she wanna, honestly I dont think we can blame Wako coz nobody has chosen to study this discipline further!!!!