I totally agree with this topic. And it is a message we all need to keep on drumming to Ruto and the other naysayers during the referendum debate. First, they lost both their argument and lost the referendum. And any insinuation of the need for negotiations, whether coming from Ruto of Canon Karanja should be dismissed out of hand.
With Ruto, his fables about abstentions counting as opposition is arrant nonsense. In elections, only those who vote count. Those who stay at home as as good as not having a vote. Second, their demand for negotiations should be laughed out of town. You don't lose a contest and ask to negotiate with the winner. Even the church people should know that when the devil lost with God, God could neither contemplate or give audience to them. They should now forever hold their peace.
And this message must be drummed into the head of the losers until they go deaf.

In the final analysis, Kenyans passed the constitution in toto, so any suggestions for amendments are overtaken by events.

Really? I can assure you than more than 1M of them just voted NO because "the pastor/priest said so". I heard very many Christians say they can't "argue with the church". If the church didn't get involved or if some of these Christians decided to vote with their conscience [after reading the 'proposed' constitution], NO would have garnered less than a million votes!!!

One question - When what 2M people is in direct conflict with what 6M people want, what do you suggest should be done? Your answer is as good as mine!