I borrow from GW's article on SN,

"To me, the more important issue is the fate of the active politicos on the ‘No’ side who will want to continue being on the stage.

Ask yourself this: Can a minister or assistant minister who has venomously opposed the coming constitution continue to operate in any official capacity under a new constitutional order he does not in his bones believe in?"

guka...because he like the rest of us who oppose it have a duty according to chapter 3 of the DAFT they will have a duty to...everyone will, not just them....will you bar them from being ministers and presidents in future because they said NO? what about the church leaders? do they become less kenyan?


not the above is not conditional to your voting pattern.

@Masukuma,
If it is "DAFT" as you have put it disrespectfully,would your conscience allow you to sit in the government then?

i think there wil be a cabinet reshuffle just like in 2005

Good point. Double standards have been the rule of the day. The ones who cried from the roof-tops about mis-use of government resouces to advance a political agenda now are the perpetrators of the same crime. We're all turning a blind eye because the constitution has changed since?

As I always say, beware of the poly-trician, he's full of poly tricks! Discern that.

@ guka I saw this jana and pondered the same issue.
My feeling is that a person who has no passion, interest, ideological inclination in any undertaking (the provisions of the new katiba in this case) has no business being asked to drive/ help implement the same. He just becomes a show stopper. There are lots of subsidiary legislation to pass as spelt out in the new katiba, and these MPs unfortunately will keep shooting down these for frivolous reasons since they didnt agree with the overall framework(new katiba) in the first place. So niwaishie. Let them go continue basking in the dying embers of the old katiba.

Implementing the new katiba will be a delicate dance for all stake holders and they must be very careful who they invite to the dance for it 2 succeed, otherwise you will have people deliberately creating bottlenecks. But the reasons they opposed it MUST be taken on board post-referendum, coz some are valid as the new katiba is not 100% perfect. But mostly,the MPigs are shooting it down for non-ideological reasons (just like Michuki supporting it for personal reasons, not conviction), esp in RV where the issue of protecting land grabbers seems to be the main defining criterion.

In an ideal environment naysaying MPigs would be expected to resign citing irreconcialiable ideological differences with a new constitutional dispensation but since that is as impossible as guka selling of his beloved nineteen wa kamande bijuti, then lets give them the sack. yaani, tuwaweke kwa gunia...
Then we can ponder what do do with the clergy..who are mistaken, but sincerely mistaken in their interpretation of the new katiba.

BTW, where is Pastor M? I am waiting in joyfull hope to hear what you have to say on the way fwd for the clergy and the nation come Aug 5th.