Nairobi — Experts rewriting the Constitution were on Monday urged by a parliamentary team to consider including a mode of representation in the draft expected next week.

The MPs asked the experts to consult the Interim Independent Boundaries Review Commission to help solve issues that have threatened to derail the process.

At the same time, an MP on Monday said the boundaries team should scrap all the existing constituencies and create new ones using "an acceptable formula".

Laikipia East MP Mwangi Kiunjuri said the principle and criteria for the creation of the constituencies should manage historical injustices in representation.

Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) on constitutional review chairman Mohammed Abdikadir said the issue should be approached in a sober manner to avoid dividing the country.

He spoke to the Daily Nation after Committee of Experts on the review process presented the PSC with the options they are weighing in resolving three contentious issues.

Mr Abdikadir said the meeting explored ways in which the contentious issues - system of government, devolution and transition - should be resolved. He added that the experts gave an insight into how they were approaching the issues.

"The issue is not even having a draft because we have had more before but they were rejected. We are at the beginning of the final stage of the process but even from the starting point, the product must be acceptable," Mr Abdikadir told the Daily Nation.

According to the Mandera Central MP, the experts, led by lawyer Nzamba Kitonga, revealed that Kenyans were still in favour of an executive president whom they elect directly.

He noted that Mr Kitonga's team indicated that chances of a draft that has a ceremonial president being accepted were minimal.

On transition, the experts were asked to ensure they looked at it in relation to other ongoing processes, particularly the electoral reforms and the boundary review.

The experts have indicated that they are planning to publish the harmonised draft and their report in the first week of November.

But on Monday, Mr Kitonga declined to indicate on what date they would publish the report to allow public debate on it for 30 days.