• Ahmednasir insisted that the problem is the refusal by the political class to implement the Constitution.
• He added that Kenyans have outgrown such 'meaningless engagement' and that Kuria should move on.
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Senior Counsel Ahmednasir Abdullahi has told off former CS Moses Kuria for endorsing calls to review the 2010 constitution.
While responding to Kuria, Ahmednasir said Kenya's problem is not the Constitution.
He insisted that the problem remains the refusal by the political class to implement the Constitution.
The lawyer termed Kuria's call a sideshow, which he said politicians are used to, with little or no result for the people.
"The problem isn't the 2010 constitution. The problem is the wilful refusal by the political elites and their sidekicks like yourself to implement and respect the Constitution," Ahmednasir said on X.
"Your tweet is a moving testimony of the political class's engagement in periodic sideshows that yield no benefit to Wanjiku."
His remarks were in response to an X post by Kuria, saying that he fully supports Opposition leader Raila Odinga's new calls for a review of the constitution.
Kuria said that after leaders rejected the Bomas Draft Constitution, the country has been dodging the real issue by experimenting with the coalition government, the famous Handshake, and now a broad-based government.
He insisted that should Kenyans decide to go back to the Bomas Draft, he would offer his full commitment towards the formation of a national constitution.
"I fully support Raila Odinga's call for a return to the Bomas Draft. Over the last 19 years since the rejection of Bomas, we have gone in circles with artificial experiments like Grand Coalition, Handshake and now Broad Based Government. We have skirted around to avoid the inevitable.
"I will offer my full devotion and commitment towards a National Constitutional conference towards the Bomas Draft," Kuria said on X.
On Saturday, Raila said the time has come for the country to relook at the 2010 Constitution to address existing gaps critically.
Raila said that a closer look at the Constitution and if need be, change, would allow a progressive nation.
The ODM leader said that while Kenyans gave candid proposals during the collection of views on the review of the Constitution, they were finally mutilated.
“Kenyans met at the Bomas of Kenya and deliberated for a very long time and came up with a very progressive constitution. That constitution was bastardized to a certain extent during the so-called Naivasha process," Raila said.
"We must go back to the Bomas draft constitution put it back on the table and see how what needs to be cleaned up so that we can have a progressive constitution."