They said the same to the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission when it took evidence from different parts of Kenya under Professor Yash Pal Ghai between 2000 and 2005...
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The Mount Kenya mafia seems determined to prevent that from happening and wants to derail the constitutional conference and its Chairperson internationally respected lawyer Yash Pal Ghai...
In contrast Moi's defeated government had attacked the head of the Constitutional Review Commission Professor Yash Pal Ghai as a foreigner (he showed the press his Kenyan passport) for not consulting him personally and for daring to think that ordinary citizens 'like the market-woman Wanjiku' could debate the constitution intelligently...
Most agree that Yash Pal Ghai's constitutional reforms framed and canvassed during Moi's imperial presidency went too far in cutting back the presidency's executive power...
The members of the constitutional review panel appointed by former President Daniel arap Moi's government and chaired by Yash Pal Ghai have unsurprisingly fallen out...
Two Nairobi lawyers Tom K'Opere and John Njongoro have launched a court action to stop the Chairman of the Constitutional Commission Yash Ghai from drawing up a draft constitution claiming that his existing draft includes a recommendation to dismiss all serving judges and make them reapply for their jobs...
(These are due before year's end but on 28 March the head of the Review Commission Yash Pal Ghai said that because the new Constitution would not be ready polling could be delayed until early next year)...
(The Chairman of the Constitutional Review Committee Yash Ghai has since proposed the establishment of a Ministry of Justice and a fully independent Attorney General...
Moi's other preparations for the transition were initially thought to be masterstrokes: the appointment of Yash Ghai a respected academic to head the Constitutional Review Commission and the formation of a KANU-National Democratic Party parliamentary alliance...
In recent months Professor Yash Pal Ghai a noted Kenyan constitutional scholar now teaching at Hong Kong University was brought in by Attorney General Amos Wako to work out a compromise all-party commission...
