Session of Kenya's National Convention Assembly (NCA) held in Nairobi on January established sometime in 1997 in a meeting attended by some 510 delegates from a whole spectrum and different sectors of the Kenyan society. This is the text of a Keynote Address delivered by the author to the 5 th Plenary 19 th , 2001. Some 600 delegates from grassroot organisations attended it. NCA was
Let me say that this is not only a great honour but also a great opportunity you have given me to participate in, what you rightly and proudly call, a peopledriven constitutional process. I sincerely and humbly thank you. With great humility, too, I wish to make a small contribution from the little much less people driven, I must say experience from your neighbour. The message and lessons to be drawn from that experience may not equally apply here, but they may still teach by negative example. Allow me to share those lessons with you.