More than anything, this is the kind of logic that normally makes me want to slit my throat.

America may have taken 200 years, but they were navigating new territory, carried serious baggage relating the first recorded cultural mix of people etc.

What do we have to say for ourselves, we don't have to reinvent the wheel, we simply have to copy a mix of the best from Africa, US, Europe, Indian to China and Japan, why should it take us 50 days, let alone the 50 years that we have taken so far.

P.S. Ouch!!! Nanfor1, you really do punch hard.

@Nan and his motley crew

As you old chaps are having a ball asking who a Smitta is, he happens to be one of the few Kenyan journalists to maintain 4 regular columns in Kenya's "established" press (since y'all a bunch o' geniuses, go figure what his real byline is).
He (Smitta) represents Kenya's population below 25 years who (if memory serves me right) constitute a 60% of the 12 million plus voters recently registered.

It's also interesting to see you alluding to a poet beyond our borders without sampling some of the local talent at Kenya National Theatre (on Saturdays) or at the Alliance. And I'm not talking about tired names like Carol whats-her-name.

On the Constitution:
And in case you didn't read the section on Public Finance, Mzee Nanfor1, chances are you and your progeny will probably have to continue doing what you are now - paying a pretty penny to some private school for quality education...simply coz you forgot to plug the holes in our public coffers in a mad dash for a "new" constitution.
Speaking of which, I've got three tots; one's a 14 year old who's married to facebook, PS2 and (his latest discovery) girls; behind him are two sisters who.....never mind!

Fact is, I hold their future in my hands and I'm about to hand it over on a platter to a bunch of narcissistic hedonists who raise their salaries on a whim and scoff at paying tax coz they are "elected representatives".

Surprisingly, when I put that argument across all I get is "you uneducated blah..di..blaah..aping illiterate niggas...yadda...yadda.yadda...contradicting Ruto on the Executive powers...blather..blather..blather...

Aside of the Kadhi Courts Cacophony, the Land Liars and some nitwit legislator from Kisii who translates the new constitution as "serekali ita kuja kuwanyang'anya mabibi", my beef with Katiba is that we place all our eggs in one basket, hand it over to a legislature who are (more or less) a law unto themselves.

Check out Section 222 & 223, especially no 223(5).
If any of you Bwana Nans and your crew of merry Aye's can point me to a section in the draft that gives me, a kawa hustler from Rifarori, the muscle to stop our (dis)Honourables from playing ping pong with my hard earned and painfully paid 32% corporate tax...trust me, I will be a YES man from here henceforth.

PS:
Have a nice day, too. But if you're a night owl like yours truly, I'm online till 1am.

@msotoville

Seeing that we are in the spirit of eating humble pie, I too take back what I had thought about you.

I honestly thought you were some college kid in jeans aping something he saw in a movie. It is obvious from your later posts that this may not be the case.

Before I can engage you in what I can see is going to be very entertaining discourse, can we continue eating the humble pie a tad more

1. Contrary to rumors spread on this forum, I am not a He.
2. Let us all come to the understanding that smitta or whatever he is, is not what you would like your kids to ape....I am very sure he can write proper English.
3. The standard newspaper cannot be considered an authority in English in any imagination of the word. Have you ever seen the spelling and grammatical mistakes in a paper that actually has editors?
4. I don't think that river road business is poor business. In fact, I wrote a paper on mama mbogas and credit last year and I know they are not. Just don't like the insinuation that I think differently.

I will take up the points you have raised tomorrow. I have kids to feed.

@Magigi,
This Fiat "rolly".....The thing took a couple hours climbing a mole hill...BK....Let me catch up.

Seriously.....Smitta....Could he/she/it be related to Arap Simit?(No laughing please.This comes with being on this side of Fourties)

Sawa madam Nanfor1.

If there's a way we can
(a) stop gova from guzzling 85% of the budget (coz they buy biros at 100/- bob @)or
(b)slap Uhuru on the wrists when he dreams up yet another supplementary budget or
(c)stop MP's (Members of Pilfer y) from selling our farmers out to GMO monopolies (like they are about to with the EPA's)
...and its clearly outlined in the draft, s'all I need to hear.

[PS: Ati college kid in jeans...LOL...That's my son in 4 years]