THE STORIES UNTOLD

1 In case you were still in doubt, allow me the latitude to state in no uncertain terms that yes, we truly are fucked! As a country, a nation, a sovereign state, we are deep in the trenches. June 18th heralded a series of next-gen  protests that the status quo deep state has not experienced before in Kenya. We, the young people of this generation, went out to the streets, peaceably and unarmed, to protest against what I’d generalize as bad governance. Our tools of trade then, and still remain so, were a phone, a bottle of water and handkerchiefs/flags coupled with placards. The clarion call has been the same, albeit shrouded in different messages: time is nigh for the country to experience good governance under the rule of law. 2 Well, a section of the political class has often deliberately misconstrued that and interpreted it as a c all for constitutional reforms in their frail self-preservation efforts. Nothing could be further from the truth! All we ask for is that the ruling elite

The Constitution of Kenya 2010 article 1(1): All sovereign power belongs to the people of Kenya and shall be exercised only in accordance with this Constitution and 1(2): The people may exercise their sovereign power either directly or through their democratically elected representatives.  These two clauses of our law define the general political governance structures of our country. But what is this thing called ‘sovereignty’? Sovereignty refers to the supreme and ultimate source of authority that exists within any political unit or association . By inference, therefore, the people are the supreme authority of any political structure within the territorial bounds of Kenya. They are at liberty to choose the form in which they will exercise their sovereign power; either directly or indirectly, through democratically elected representatives. The CoK 2010 is inherently inclined towards describing the structures of indirect exercise of that sovereign power, at the expense of direct exerci