93 ERRORS

Is it sabotage or mischief, how could this slip through the watchful eyes of law experts or who failed in the job?

Even before the issue of a parallel draft on the proposed constitution is resolved, Kenyans will be grappling with the discovery of some serious fundamental errors in the proposed constitution published by the Attorney General on 6th May 2010.

A section of Civil Society members led by Kenyans for Justice and Development Director Okoiti Omtata said they had identified 93 glaring mistakes in the draft law.

Some of the flaws identified by the civil society are: In article 41(3) where sub clauses a,b,c and d are missing. Article 103(1) sub section (e)(i) refers to a clause 2 which is nowhere.

In the Fourth schedule, part 1 clause 27 is missing as well and the sixth schedule sub-clause 27(2). Other errors can be noted in Articles 234,163 and 260.

'It is unacceptable for a document that is going to be the foundation of the country to be recklessly drafted" said the lobby group.

Omtata said they were interrogating the proposed draft law to audit its integrity adding that they will release the results of the audit to the public next week.

" We call upon the AG and his team to immediately own up for failing Kenyans " said the activist.

Experts say these are indeed fundamental errors as opposed to grammatical errors and that need immediate attention.

The Committee of Experts has refused to comment on the new revelations with the Director Ekuru Eukot saying they have to study the document before issuing any statement.

A team of detectives from the Serious Crimes Unit and Cyber Crime Unit are investigating how illegal changes were sneaked into the proposed constitution.

Government Press staff were the focus of the probe.