Kenya Seeks Donor Fund For New Constitution

Prime Minister Raila Odinga

Prime Minister Raila Odinga

Nairobi,Kenya.……30thNov,2009. Kenya is call­ing on the inter­na­tional com­mu­nity to fund the process of get­ting a new con­sti­tu­tion. So far, the Com­mit­tee of Experts which is has been tasked to help the coun­try get a new con­sti­tu­tion has spent over kshs.404.66 mil­lion against a set bud­get of kshs.1.2 billion.Kenyan Prime Min­is­ter, Raila Odinga called on the inter­na­tional com­mu­nity to help raise the funds in order to help the coun­try realise its dream for a new con­sti­tu­tion which Kenyans have tried to change over the last 20 year with no success.

The Prime Min­is­ter said after the pub­li­ca­tion of a har­mo­nize Draft two weeks ago, that Kenyans now have a bet­ter chance to have a new con­sti­tu­tion, but lack of funds is over­shad­ow­ing the effort. If the money is raised on time Kenyans can have a new con­sti­tu­tion after the draft is sub­jected to a ref­er­en­dum by March 2010 and help the coun­try get reforms which are needed to help the coun­try get rid of poor gov­er­nance and cor­rup­tion which is deep rooted across the nation.

The Pre­mier was address­ing mem­bers of the diplo­matic corps and donors in a work­shop dubbed Devel­op­ment Part­ner­ship Forum which is orga­nized by the world bank. Kenya plans to use the meet­ing to get the inter­na­tional com­mu­nity to fund dif­fer­ent projects that are now stalled for lack of funds.

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