katiba day in year three...we are lost, eeeh?

I have not written anything since Dec 14 2012...and i can assure you that the world has been spinning!

and so since i was not able to attend the katiba day celebrations either in Makindu or the one to be held by 4Cs in Ufungamano or the one by CRECO and Mazingira in their offices in Westlands, i write instead...

I have several concerns:
1. That there are some Acts of Parliament that are unconstitutional and need advocacy for them to be dropped or amended to be in accord to the constitution.

2.The CDF Act (and there is advocacy by a group of CSOs allied to TISA on this), the Intergovernmental relations Act and the National Government Coordination Act etc

3. That the Jubilee government is doing everything to frustrate devolution. In the first place, Treasury issued a budget sample that put the county assembly in conflict with the executive. This stalled meaningful work for 2 initial months. Secondly, the TA did a quick rapid assessment in May and concluded that County governments had no capacity (tic!...one did not need to do an assessment, it was a fact then because everything was being put together...) and therefore the "no capacity" lamentation was given grounding by "research". This whole fiasco negates the functional role of TA and the National government and contravenes the constitution.

4. The call for a referendum for amendment of the constitution must be seen from a merit and trust perspective. You can not trust the politicians will keep the faith of the initial drive/reason...or, as they always do, they will do horse trading aka "clause trading" and therefore end up with the 252 amendments that the National Assembly had proposed before 6th May 2010...or worse now that we have a clear Majority in both houses of one party...

5. Is the huge increase in the national debt form government borrowing constitutional? Did Parliament approve? How much is the public debt? What is the current status of internal borrowing?

6. Impunity has grown - police brutality, crackdown of HR defenders, ICC witnesses withdrawing their testimonies, the jet saga, etc... So, is the Constitution of Kenya suspended?

7. .....