The just retired Chief Justice has added his voice to the growing demands for a new constitution. It is my earnest wish and hope that, before 2015, Tanzania will find the courageous and visionary leadership (in the President and Parliament), that will deliver a new constitution and steer the country away from the kind of catastrophe that befell Kenya in 2007.
The situation that followed the elections in Kenya was, in many respects, to be expected. This is mainly because when the government failed to deliver a new constitution in 2005 the country was plunged into a state of political confusion. Ideally, after the loss of the constitutional referendum in 2005, the Kibaki government lost its political legitimacy and should have stepped down to seek a new mandate.
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