President Adama Barrow’s hand pick lawmaker has promised to ensure that the draft Constitution doesn’t pass through approval as he described it as a copy and paste constitution from Kenya Constitution.
Participating in the debate, the nominated member Majanko Samusa on Monday at the National Assembly said it “is very disappointing; we can’t just take this book and adopt it. So, me, I am totally against it and I’m not going to say any more things. Even if this parliament approves this constitution honestly Madam Speaker I bet, I will be in front during the referendum and I will make sure that it fails, which is my constitutional right,” Honorable Samusa fumed.
The public including lawmakers are all divided over the draft constitution since the commission tasked to draft the national status book.
And nominated member Samusa is one of those lawmakers who had blatantly made his stance very clear against the draft constitution.
“I will campaign against it vigorously because we cannot quote from a constitution from Kenya – a constitution that today is in Kenyan High Court challenged by the Kenyan citizens expressing their concerns. How can you bring that word-to-word – photocopy it [and] put it in our constitution,” he added.