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27th August 2014 marked the fourth anniversary of the new Kenyan constitution. All the hopes that the Kenyan people had put into it seem to have been eroded leaving hopelessness and despair in their hearts. The new constitution took the government expenditure on wages alone up to $ 4.6 billion leaving only $2.3 billion for development due to the increase of the number of government employees. A survey conducted recently indicated that life has become harder in 2014 compared to the year 2013 due to heavy taxes imposed on citizens in order to suffice the almost KSH2 trillion budget.

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Four years now, there has been a huge debate not only about the process of its implementation but even but in interpreting some of its clauses! For example, there are has been a continuing debate on the so-called battle of supremacy between the Senators and the governors! And between the National Government and County Governments who is supposed to manage sectors such as health, Security and education. In a further funny scenario is that those leaders who campaigned for the enactment of this new constitution are currently campaigning for a referendum in order to change the constitution while those who opposed to this constitution and currently in power opposes to the change of the this constitution.

This clearly brings to light the capitalistic saying, ‘We do not have permanent friends nor permanent enemies but we have permanent interest.' They are ready to change what they campaigned for only to suit their interest and also retaining what they campaigned against only to suit their desires.

Doctors have been on strike twice while the teachers thrice under these new laws not forgetting the security officers who went on a ‘go slow' for some few days. The government owes KSH 2.3trillion to foreign donors and still needs KSH 340 billion to cater for its expenditure in this financial year.

These and many more are schemes orchestrated by the western colonialist in order to enslave the so-called third world countries which gives them a loophole into looting of its abundant resources and raw materials for their industries like the titanium in Kwale and oil in Turkana. The western colonialist through local politicians spearheads the change of these laws in order to benefit from them. They also use their veto powers in the UN, IMF and WORLD BANK to sanction these third world countries in multinational trades and international treaties into forcefully submitting to them to steal their resources.

Whoever has put faith in this new constitution or other man-made policies should realize that they are bound to faults due to the imperfect and self-centered nature of human beings. The only solution to this is to change the entire system from the man-made laws to Shariah laws that are divine without any mistakes in them. Laws that will turn the self-centered human beings into one society with one goal living in harmony.

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Bakari Mohamed
Member of Hizb ut Tahrir in East Africa