Dear Colleagues,
The Katiba Sasa! Campaign Technical Team, after the launch of The Proposed Constitution of Kenya yesterday, spent the afternoon and evening studying the document to ascertain its faithfulness to the document passed by Parliament on 1st April 2010. We did this considering the past experiences with "editorial" work by that office.
We superimposed the two documents and realised the following:
* There were 18841 revisions
* Out of these 5866 were insertions, 3570 were deletions and 9405 were cases of formatting
* There were no comments or movement of clauses
All these were editorial, correction of references, enhancing and clarification of meanings (e.g the word "mentioned" has severally been changed to "specified" or "referred to"), pagination, addition for clarification (e.g. article 230 (1) and article 264) and changes to ensure consistency (e.g Art 1, 2 and 3 - "authority" changed to "sovereign power". Others were prepositional, auxiliary verbs (none distorting meaning or creating ambiguity) capitalisation and punctuation.
We noted two typological errors in Article 170 (5) it is written Kadhi's instead of Kadhis', and the repetition of the word "under" in one of the articles . These, in our view, are insignificant.
In our preliminary view, the AG's office did professional work and adhered to the law as set out in the CKR Act 2008.
Attached find the superimposed document and see whether there is something we missed.
Katiba ni Sasa!
Kawive,
Executive Secretary
Constitution & Reform Education Consortium - CRECO
P.O Box 2231-00200 Nairobi
Office Location: Matumbato Rd, Upperhill
Tel +254 020 2714762/63; Fax +254 020 2714763
Wireless 020 3590735; Mobile 0722 209779
Email kawivew@crecokenya.org website
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