Mombasa Governor Ali Hassan Joho wants lawyers to be used to push for constitutional changes other than leaving the referendum push to politicians.
Speaking during the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) annual law conference in Mombasa on Thursday, Joho said that lawyers are best placed to address contentious issues in the country through their push in the referendum.
"There are issues of entrenching deeper in the constitutional matters that affect devolution so that we do not have to argue all the times. There are lessons that we have learnt from when we promulgated this constitution to this point. In my opinion, there are no better citizens to handle this than the lawyers," Joho said.
His call was supported by for Attorney General Prof Githu Muigai who urged his learned friends to support constitutional changes to reduce government costs.
He also proposed use of politicians as Cabinet Secretaries to protect the interests of the common citizen.
"We need a constitution that we can afford since all of us have agreed now that we have learnt our lessons. Numbers are not trantranslating into greater democracy. Numbers are not yielding greater accountability. We need to reduce the size of government and thereby reduce the cost of government," said Prof Muigai.