Why NRC detached itself from drafting the constitution

The early years of the 1995 Constitution were widely regarded as a fine and progressive achievement. Discussions about the quality of the Constitution sparked minimal debate. Its framers attribute the acceptance of the two major processes, the public consultations by the Constitutional Commission and the drafting by the Constituent Assembly rather than by the members of the National Resistance Council (NRC). In this piece, Jackson Onyango examines why the NRC distanced itself from the constitution-drafting process and offers an outlook on the composition of the elected Constituent Assembly, which successfully forged a broad consensus.