Days after the launch of the governors’ Pesa Mashinani referendum drive, a new outfit pushing for constitution changes in the country has emerged in Nakuru County.
The group, dubbed ‘Okoa Katiba referendum’, now wants to use public forums and parliament to seal loopholes they claim are in the current constitution.
The outfit was initiated yesterday by a lobby group, ’The People’s Power Watch’ led by chairman Edwin Ngengi Gathu and secretary general Jesse Karanja.
“The Okoa Katiba initiative is a Kenyan movement out to save the constitution from selfish individuals for political gain,” Ngengi told reporters in Nakuru.
According to the group, the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (Cord) leadership and the council of governors, who are agitating for changes of the supreme law are using it as a political tool to get mirage in the political scene.
They claimed that the forum is the only one Kenyans of goodwill can use to save the constitution from mutilation by political leaders.
“We appeal to the Cord leadership to be sincere enough and to tell Kenyans their hidden agenda regarding their push for a referendum. We are aware that politicians with narrow and selfish interests are using it hardly four years after it was promulgated,” said Ngengi.
They welcomed their counterparts and supporters of the Okoa Kenya and Pesa Mashinani referendum outfits to abandon their calls and join them to progressively make the anticipated changes.