“We need to reduce the counties,” Raila details his Referendum push

Referendum is inevitable. Sooner than we expect we will be queuing up for that major amendment. But given an opportunity what will you pick as a point that should be rectified in the current constitution?

But Raila has come out to elaborate his idea for an ideal referendum.

Raila was speaking on Wednesday night during KTN’s point-blank show hosted by his former PA and political analysts Tonny Gachoka.

The ODM party leader reiterated the need to amend the Constitution through a referendum.

While noting that there is no perfect constitution anywhere in the world, Raila said the 2010 law was hurriedly written and promulgated under the pressure resulting from 2007/8 conflict and its now due for amendment.

“We don’t need to copy paste things from other countries, we can do them our way to benefit our people. For example, we need to reduce the counties. This doesn’t mean we are killing them. We are just working on a better way to reduce the tax burden on Kenyans,” he said.

The former PM was also quick to mention that the referendum is not aimed at creating a position for him or President Uhuru in 2022.

He said both Uhuru and himself had made a resolve to not discuss or focus on 2022 politics during their March 9, 2018, handshake.

“Both of us had been sworn in as presidents. We sat down and agreed we cannot have two presidents in one country and I agreed to step aside for Uhuru and focus on uniting the country by working together and not engaging in 2022 politics,” Raila said.

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