Seven years on and benefits of the new Constitution are emerging

Calls for constitutional reforms were a major reason for the political changes that Kenya witnessed after 2010. A lot of people were unhappy with governance, the legal environment and the old constitution.

An archaic colonial constitution of 1963 still prevailed over the country 37 years after independence. The country was limited in many respects as the constitution did not provide an enabling environment for reforms. A constitution is the foundational law of any country and all other laws derive from it.