effectively. A police officer told me the junior ranks as in other institutions were fully in support of the new Constitution after a referendum . Those against were members of the established order who for generations have ensured nepotism prevailed. Interesting aspects of the Constitution which takes full effect when a new Government emerges out of the Coalition include the clause that the position of the Inspectaor General of Police(IGP) be advertised and that an IGP need not be a police officer. An attempt by Kibaki to impose a chief Justice after the promulgation of the Constitution was resisted by the people and the court uncharacterically rejected that. Infact on the day of promulgation, Uhuru Park which is perhaps bigger in land side then Freedom House in Pretoria had overreached itself with 150,000 people . At the stroke of the pen, a 21 salute, nation shed off a set of laws –gun “the inherited from the British and entered a new constitutional dispensation in which the powers of the Presidency will be reduced.” The heads of state who had witnessed this had also included some of those who helped to save the country in the aftermath of the electoral disputes. As Kofi Annan entered the grounds cheers was infections; Kufuor who the Daily Nation 9 a day before had described as Man Who Saved Kenya” received “The an equally standing ovation as he walked through, others
effectively. A police officer told me the junior ranks as in other institutions were fully in support of the new Constitution after a referendum . Those against were members of the established order who for generations have ensured nepotism prevailed. Interesting aspects of the Constitution which takes full effect when a new Government emerges out of the Coalition include the clause that the position of the Inspectaor General of Police(IGP) be advertised and that an IGP need not be a police officer. An attempt by Kibaki to impose a chief Justice after the promulgation of the Constitution was resisted by the people and the court uncharacterically rejected that. Infact on the day of promulgation, Uhuru Park which is perhaps bigger in land side then Freedom House in Pretoria had overreached itself with 150,000 people . At the stroke of the pen, a 21 –gun salute, “the nation shed off a set of laws inherited from the British and entered a new constitutional dispensation in which the powers of the Presidency will be reduced.” The heads of state who had witnessed this had also included some of those who helped to save the country in the aftermath of the electoral disputes. As Kofi Annan entered the grounds cheers was infections; Kufuor who the Daily Nation 9 a day before had described as “The Man Who Saved Kenya” received an equally standing ovation as he walked through, others
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