The face behind the highs and lows of historic draft constitution in kenya

Mohammed Abdikadir, the young lawyer and first-term MP who has come to symbolise the search for a modern Constitution recalls the highs and lows that preceded Thursday’s historic vote in Parliament.


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Relief was evident on the faces of the majority of MPs when the “Ayes” drowned out the few “Nays” to pass the draft constitution on Thursday evening. Among them was a young well-read lawyer serving his first term as MP for Mandera Central, who felt a mixture of gratitude and happiness. After all, it is he who moved the motion to adopt the draft from the Committee of Experts on the Review of the Constitution on March 2, and he had just witnessed a historic moment in Kenya’s search for a new set of laws. The chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on the Review of the Constitution says in this interview that “it has been a wonderful struggle”.

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