NRM leader Raila Odinga in Bonchari, Kisii County on October 24, 2014. [Photo: NMG]On October 24, 2014,  the then Cord leader Raila Odinga said that 'Okoa Kenya' referendum was a must for Kenyans as part of a process to improve their livelihood."Our Committee of Experts are currently drafting the Bill upon which Kenyans will cast their vote. Reports that people have lost interest in the push for the plebiscite are misplaced and unfounded," Odinga said then during a fundraiser Bonchari Constituency, Kisii County, as quoted by Nation.President Uhuru Kenyatta in response to Raila's call for a referendum said: "There is nothing new they are offering. The campaign has lost direction. Do not give it a thought or attention."Three years later, NASA seems to back at where it started, call for constitutional change 'to safeguard devolution'.Following a meeting on Thursday between its principals led by Odinga and other elected politicians, NASA now NRM, resolved to establish an initiative to review the constitution to with enhancing devolution being a key agenda.According to the Star, CEO Norman Magaya has said the coalition will take its proposal to county assemblies for approval, then mobilise grassroots leaders.This was the same narrative during the Okoa Kenya push that ended up being a wild goose chase.Perhaps the only new thing in this 'Okoa Kenya 2017 edition' is terms like People's Assembly, National Resistance Movement among many more to come as stated by Raila himself. "It is to constitute a convention to be held in Nairobi to discuss and determine the pathway to democracy and constitutionalism and to restore legality and the rule of law," Magaya told the Star on Thursday.Whether this new push for constitutional change will end like the first one, which solely achieved in keeping Raila relevant politically, or it will have a meaningful ending, only time can tell.

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