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How Presidents have led onslaught against the Constitution

From Left Presidents Kibaki,Yoweri Museveni (Uganda),Paul Kagame (Rwanda) and Sudan's Omar al-Bashir after the Promulgation of the new constitution at Uhuru Park yesterday 27/08/10.[FILE/Standard]

On the very day Kenya was promulgating its new constitutional order after 47 years of living off a colonialist-mediated one, its original sin was contemporaneously proclaimed.

The diminutive, stocky and bow-legged President of the Sudan at the time, Omar Bashir, walked into the promulgation grounds, escorted by then Cabinet Minister Najib Balala at the invitation of President Mwai Kibaki’s government.

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