Cord identifies key issues for referendum question

Cord has outlined issues which will form the referendum question and starts collecting signatures next Wednesday.

Operating under the Okoa Kenya Movement, a team of experts preparing the way for the referendum named the issues as devolution, land reform and electoral reforms.

Other key issues from which they will formulate the referendum question were listed by the Committee of Experts as inclusivity and equality, fighting corruption and enhancing security.

“The committee wishes to announce that it has now identified the general suggestions around which the amendment initiative shall be formulated,” said lawyer Paul Mwangi, who chairs the committee.

Mr Mwangi said Cord principals Raila Odinga , Kalonzo Musyoka and Moses Wetang’ula will today announce the programme for launching the collection of signatures to push for the referendum.

“The Committee of Experts of Okoa Kenya Movement mandated with the obligation to lead the programme to amend the Constitution by popular initiative wishes to announce that the collection of signatures in support of the proposed amendment shall commence on Wednesday, August 13,” he said.

The committee was unveiled two weeks ago.

Cord decided to push for a referendum on July 7 at Uhuru Park in Nairobi after their campaign to push President Uhuru Kenyatta to call for national dialogue failed.

The Cord leaders vowed to go back to Kenyans to find solutions to what they said were problems of insecurity, corruption, disunity, electoral process and devolution.

They declared that they would not sit back and watch the country being driven to the edge by the Jubilee administration.