Making of a constitution

The 80s have been described by many analysts the most repressive in the country's history. NTV engages some of the men shaped that key decade in Kenya's post independence history. They include the clergy who dared speak when doing so had great perils, the men who wielded power at the time as well those who challenged them from within.

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[sirjonduke]

Kenyatta started a legacy of promoting his own interests. Moi took it a step further, plundered Kenya's assets and devastated the Kenyan economy during his reign. Kibaki has failed us by failing to right the wrongs of the previous regimes. Impunity continues. Who will be next, what will their legacy be?

[wesmonite]

@danielnyang am not defending wat moi did,but trying to be fair.all the wrongs in the country seem to heaped on moi.we forget that kenyatta silenced alot of people who tried to form other partis.start by admitting that there are tribes that want the presidency to be theirs 4ver.dont look at the problem with one eye closed.open both eyes.i hav nothing against any tribe but just pointing the truth.hope we will be around come 2012 and lets c if that one tribe will support any other person whose not

[SonNative]

GG Made Moi Moi together with Njonjo. Njonjo is the one who sneaked a diabolic law in our constitution with the words; "Any person who imagines, designs, engineers or otherwise intends the death of the president is guilty of an offence; treason. ...:

That is satanic! He needs to apologise to us and our children and our children's children...

[SonNative]

People with short memory or no memory at all. Betty Murungi was a young student at the university of Nairobi. She was a political activist in her days. She has as much right to speak about Kenya as people like Njoya, Oyugi, Okullu, Muge, Njeru Kathangu, Koigi et al.

Njonjo needs to shut up. He represents no one. He is a bastard and so is Kamotho. I don't like GG. He has been my MP for as long as I've been alive. We used to think that the Laikipia West seat was his. He made Moi Moi.

[wesmonite]

@danielnyang AND PLIZ INCLUDE KENYATTA IN UR CRITISIZING COZ HE IS THE ONE THAT PLANTED THE SEEDS OF TRIBALISM AND WEN MOI WAS JUST DOING WAT ANY FARMER WOULD DO (TAKE CARE OF THE WEEDS) IN YUR FEILD? U CRYING .......BE FAIR THATS ALL.REMEMBER WEN JARAMOGI FORMED AN OPPOSITION PARTY? WHERE DID HE END UP?.....

[wesmonite]

@danielnyang u dont dont want to swallow the bitter truth.let the kikus prove the rest of kenia wrong by actually voting 4 someone who is not kikuyu till then i will not stop raising this point.u know that will never happen.blame MrMOI 4 continuing to carry on with the system he was handedor rather by luck and do u remember THE CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION MOVEMENT???????

[wesmonite]

@lawrencemathia u make a very valid point.these are the same players who made kenya a one party state @uhuru.they should have done this wen they were in power especially the former A.G

[mwasteve]

@wesmonite u dont know matiba. he thought kenyans made a grave mistake to have elected kibaki in 2002 so keep track of news and stop being petty

[mungai123sc]

@lawrencemathia I concur with you.

[lawrencemathia]

@mungai123sc we were not taken for granted those former powerful politicians were the ones taken for granted like Kamotho Karibu Baba,and Njonjo who fought tooth and nail to see Moi in power listen to hom now