Nazlin involvement in the constitution making, drive for a new people spirited, people driven constitution process from about the year 2000 and the constitution referendum 2005 and again 2010 and to-date: …
NAZLIN INVOLVEMENT IN THE CONSTITUTION MAKING, DRIVE FOR A NEW PEOPLE SPIRITED, PEOPLE DRIVEN CONSTITUTION PROCESS FROM ABOUT THE YEAR 2000 AND THE CONSTITUTION REFERENDUM 2005 AND AGAIN 2010 AND TO-DATE:
Nazlin has been deeply entwined it its intricacies, political and stakeholders complexities, interests of the nation and passion for good governance which we cannot achieve unless we have in place strong vibrant enabling laws and apolitical class that has goodwill to selflessly implement and execute these laws and such Laws should not have gaps for mischief but to the point, non-nonsensical, tough and dignified which can and will cleanse the entire political system of impunity and failed leadership and forge a clear-cut, strict and straight path for renewed vibrant visionary leadership with integrity, thus creating the necessary enabling environment for its full implementation, opening great doors at last, for the speedy growth, peace, prosperity, development and cohesion of our great Nation, its citizenry and posterity to come. Nazlin found just a few newspaper articles covered on some of her earliest roles in this process of constitution making which initiated the Bomas process and the CKRC and during 2002 general elections.
Nazlin made history and carved her niche in the political, religious and leadership landscape in Kenya in her formidable crucial historical opposition role in the 2005 constitutional referendum in Kenya in which she was the lead female luminary in the forefront with other members of the then opposition Orange movement which was later registered as a party with the President of the Republic of Kenya, his Excellency, Hon Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, the Deputy President, Hon William Samoei Ruto, the former Prime Minister, Hon Raila Amollo Odinga, the former Vice President, Hon Kalonzo Musyoka, and other prominent Kenyans and in which she was the founder member number one. In this drive of the Orange movements opposition in the 2005 referendum, Nazlin was the lead speaker and also with the entire press through interviews and talk shows to disseminate the opposition Orange teams issues against the Bill and her acumen and articulacy on the now retired constitution, the unpopular proposed draft constitution, the Bomas draft which was initially a public driven process but hijacked by the then government and an ideal expectation of the peoples constitution and also played a crucial role in the mobilization of the Muslim populace and the mass public in the rejection of the government sponsored and propelled unpopular proposed constitution Bill – which had been propelled after she paid for a full page advertisement in a leading daily newspaper on the ills and dangers of the entire proposed constitution and mobilizing the nation to vote a big NO! in the referendum. SHE WAS PART OF THE LEADING OPPOSITION THAT TRANSCENDED THE ENTIRE NATION WITH MAMOTH RALLIES IN OPPOSITION OF THE UNPOPULAR BILL AND RENDERED IT A LANDSLIDE DEFEAT.
Nazlin has spearheaded- through the NMCK, the Constitutional review process amongst the Muslim community in Kenya, also becoming the Voice of all women in Kenya regardless of religion, representing the grassroots in extensive campaigns through-out Kenya through its NUR network culminating in sensitizing Kenyans on the Constitution making process in Kenya, networking, mobilizing and leading a resounding win by the Kenyan citizens against the governments propelled unpopular constitution Bill in the two referenda held in Kenya in 2005 and 2010 and further strengthen the roles of Muslim women in Kenya who also partook in the mobilization and actual running for elected offices from the location levels all the way to the presidency of the republic of Kenya.
Amidst serious threats to her life and threats facing arrest severally, Nazlin publicly and very vocally supported and spearheaded the historical constitutional debate and referendum campaign throughout Kenya representing the Muslim population that number over 10 million and all the women of Kenya in general, numbering an approximate 16 million, as a luminary in the popular Orange Democratic movement (ODM) that won a resounding win against an unpopular government and unpopular government driven constitution Bill IN 2004-2005. The popular ODM was believed by the majority of Kenyans in being the vehicle that could bring Kenyans to a true political and democratic dispensation order and Nazlin’s tireless and selfless efforts are well enshrined in the history of Kenya. Her journey with the referendum debate in Kenya started as being on of the first leaders to voice a big No, through the media in public, to the unpopular government driven Wako Bill as early as August 2005 followed by a full page supplement she bought in the Local Sunday Nation – the largest selling newspaper in Kenya, where she gave a critical analysis of the unpopular Bill and made her stand on a NO to the Bill – The first Kenyan leader to do so.
In 2004 Nazlin was in the forefront rejecting the said government proposed constitutional draft Bill through mass mobilization of women, the Muslim Community, leaders and the general public through press conferences, a full page paid for supplement on the ills of the said Bill written, published by her through the National Muslim Council of Kenya banner, public fora, demonstrations, rallies and public meetings canvassing Nairobi and coast provinces and which were well highlighted by the Press/media. Her platforms, capacity, accomplishments and plans including her said aggressive campaign against the said draft Bill apparently impressed the Hon. Raila Odinga who was the opposition leader and Minister of Roads and public service at the time and fortified by the supreme roles and mandates he offered me, we decided to pool our energies together to further our ideologies for the Nation which culminated into the well-known popularized public political union that fused the two of us together in a powerful political opposition force to contend with in 2004. Being its sole leading female luminary gained another name from the masses as ‘Mama Orange’ and the founders of the initial core team that pulled in other leaders and the mass public to join our popular ‘orange movement’ as we canvassed the entire nation together and I had the role of speaking for the opposition force in most press/media news interviews and talk shows, our massive public rallies throughout the Nation as one of the leading speakers in opposition to the government and opposing the government’s proposed draft constitution Bill while furthering our cause as the orange team because of her vocalness, popularity with the masses, history as a human rights defender, her willingness to put her head in the lions mouth so to speak for public interest, her articulacy and oratory skills on all public, national and opposition issues, grasp of the unpopular Bill, knowledge and history of the entire constitutional review process for Kenya and what Kenyans needed in a constitution and its leadership. These included our rallies at the Nyayo Stadium and several at Uhuru Park in support of the media houses and press freedom after the infamous government raid on the standard group and her very vocal speech during this rally and earlier with the honorable Raila Odinga outside the Standard offices at the I&M building in the CBD amongst many other throughout the Nation.
KICC NIGHT VIGIL; Nazlin has further traversed the localities bringing calm to hot-spots and the dissenting voices and troubled gathering during the vote count spots literally saving senior police officers from wrath of the public and vice versa saving the public from the wrath of the police including her all-night vigil and tallying of votes at the KICC during the vote count, the winning gathering of thousands of people at the KICC to support us in our landslide victory and the finale celebratory thanksgiving massive public rally at Uhuru Park in Nairobi not to forget the full page article written and published by herself through the National Muslim Council of Kenya in the mainstream newspapers to advice Kenya against the said government proposed constitution Bill on its ills, shortfalls and mischief and what this portended for the nation on two occasions during both the constitutional referenda in 2005 and again in 2010.
Thus she played a tremendous leading role as a founding frontline runner and sole female luminary of the opposition force in the rejection of the government proposed daft constitution Bill long prior to and during the 1st Constitutional referenda held in 2005 resounding a landslide humiliating defeat to the government and that gave ride to the entire opposition, save for me, is part of the Coalition government today in the positions of Prime Minister, two deputy Prime Ministers, the vice president, speaker of the National assembly and deputy speaker, top officers of the judiciary, several ministers and assistant ministers and national security organs as well as heads of foreign missions and am well known to have vehemently and publicly opposed and riddled what I verily believe to be an illegal coalition imposed upon the people, founded as a result of orchestrated violence, genocide and murder of innocent civilians and bring the Country to its knees just so as to craft a power sharing formula in a so-called ‘National Accord’.
KENYA – CONSTITUTIONAL MAKING PROCESS AND REFERENDUM 2010; Nazlin was once again in the forefront of the constitution making this time in 2010, again the sole female leader and sole Muslim leader in the forefront and on a light a candle peaceful mission, transversed the Nation in outreach to leaders and the masses, mobilized the media and published a full page paid for expose on the dangers hidden within this new constitution and what it portended for the Nation urging the masses to vote a big NO! in the referendum which article was titled, the proposed constitution; the hidden truth published in the Sunday Standard on July 18th 2010 which raised great public appreciation at her efforts in highlighting the dangers of the proposed constitution and received overwhelming response from Kenyans and the world over. Save for joining a prayer meeting with other faiths in solidarity at the Uhuru Park Nazlin only joined hands with the former President and not as part of the NO team or secretariat but independent and in the interests of both sides of the political divide and not for any other purpose save that her approach was issue oriented, focused on sensitization, outreach and education with overall tones of tolerance and peaceful dignified non-confrontational process which I felt he too had in common with me. The retired Presidents rally which she joined him in Suswa, rift valley which was heavily covered by the press.
Prior to Nazlin has crisscrossed the entire nation with over 40 rallies and meet the people tours starting with a massive public rally held in her honor in Kisumu at the Jomo Kenyatta sports ground in Kisumu where the public pressed upon her to declare her interest and run for the presidency of Kenya. She has campaigned throughout Nyanza endorsed by all the topmost Muslim leadership as the Candidate for the block Muslim vote which endorsement was quickly adopted throughout the Nation by leading Muslim Clerics and which were heavily captured by the press.
She is very loved by the people of Kenya as well as in Nyanza – a political hot-sport, as she has taken uncountable development projects throughout the grassroots and condensed her projects on HIV/AIDS as Nyanza is the hardest hit of this pandemic and determined to serve the people as their president, which he openly exhibited riled and agitated him to no end. And feeling the irreplaceable vacuum her absence and opposition caused to his campaign he once told her that he would never let Nazlin reach the ballot for presidency nor any elective seat and that she was finished without him. But she couldn’t allow herself to be intimidated as she was carrying a heavy burden on her back of the promises she had made to the people, public trust and confidence in me and her vision, of hailing from a minority community, oppressive gender imbalances suffered by women since creation embedded in negative cultural and social norms delegating the female to humiliating, degrading and inferior lessor roles and having struggled through all these barriers and broken them to improve and create dignified space for women throughout the world with the will of the Almighty God as the one he had chosen to be the role model emulated, celebrated and respected throughout the world she had to brace herself of his intimidation and anger for the sake of womankind, her sisters, daughters and posterity to come and continue soldiering on and clear the un-trodden path of all thorns to ease their journey who would follow behind. So fortified with such weighty responsibilities, spiritual enlightenment and massive public support as the peoples project named “president wa mtaa”, against all the odds he placed in her path and which he did, she made it to the ballot as the sole female candidate in the disputed general election 2007 and the first Muslim woman to vie for presidency in Africa.
NAZLIN AT THE FOREFRONT & DEEPLY ENTWINED IN THE CONSTITUTION MAKING
Nazlin involvement in the constitution making, drive for a new people spirited, people driven constitution process from about the year 2000 and the constitution referendum 2005 and again 2010 and to-date: …
NAZLIN INVOLVEMENT IN THE CONSTITUTION MAKING, DRIVE FOR A NEW PEOPLE SPIRITED, PEOPLE DRIVEN CONSTITUTION PROCESS FROM ABOUT THE YEAR 2000 AND THE CONSTITUTION REFERENDUM 2005 AND AGAIN 2010 AND TO-DATE:
Nazlin has been deeply entwined it its intricacies, political and stakeholders complexities, interests of the nation and passion for good governance which we cannot achieve unless we have in place strong vibrant enabling laws and apolitical class that has goodwill to selflessly implement and execute these laws and such Laws should not have gaps for mischief but to the point, non-nonsensical, tough and dignified which can and will cleanse the entire political system of impunity and failed leadership and forge a clear-cut, strict and straight path for renewed vibrant visionary leadership with integrity, thus creating the necessary enabling environment for its full implementation, opening great doors at last, for the speedy growth, peace, prosperity, development and cohesion of our great Nation, its citizenry and posterity to come. Nazlin found just a few newspaper articles covered on some of her earliest roles in this process of constitution making which initiated the Bomas process and the CKRC and during 2002 general elections.
Nazlin made history and carved her niche in the political, religious and leadership landscape in Kenya in her formidable crucial historical opposition role in the 2005 constitutional referendum in Kenya in which she was the lead female luminary in the forefront with other members of the then opposition Orange movement which was later registered as a party with the President of the Republic of Kenya, his Excellency, Hon Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, the Deputy President, Hon William Samoei Ruto, the former Prime Minister, Hon Raila Amollo Odinga, the former Vice President, Hon Kalonzo Musyoka, and other prominent Kenyans and in which she was the founder member number one. In this drive of the Orange movements opposition in the 2005 referendum, Nazlin was the lead speaker and also with the entire press through interviews and talk shows to disseminate the opposition Orange teams issues against the Bill and her acumen and articulacy on the now retired constitution, the unpopular proposed draft constitution, the Bomas draft which was initially a public driven process but hijacked by the then government and an ideal expectation of the peoples constitution and also played a crucial role in the mobilization of the Muslim populace and the mass public in the rejection of the government sponsored and propelled unpopular proposed constitution Bill – which had been propelled after she paid for a full page advertisement in a leading daily newspaper on the ills and dangers of the entire proposed constitution and mobilizing the nation to vote a big NO! in the referendum. SHE WAS PART OF THE LEADING OPPOSITION THAT TRANSCENDED THE ENTIRE NATION WITH MAMOTH RALLIES IN OPPOSITION OF THE UNPOPULAR BILL AND RENDERED IT A LANDSLIDE DEFEAT.
Nazlin has spearheaded- through the NMCK, the Constitutional review process amongst the Muslim community in Kenya, also becoming the Voice of all women in Kenya regardless of religion, representing the grassroots in extensive campaigns through-out Kenya through its NUR network culminating in sensitizing Kenyans on the Constitution making process in Kenya, networking, mobilizing and leading a resounding win by the Kenyan citizens against the governments propelled unpopular constitution Bill in the two referenda held in Kenya in 2005 and 2010 and further strengthen the roles of Muslim women in Kenya who also partook in the mobilization and actual running for elected offices from the location levels all the way to the presidency of the republic of Kenya.
Amidst serious threats to her life and threats facing arrest severally, Nazlin publicly and very vocally supported and spearheaded the historical constitutional debate and referendum campaign throughout Kenya representing the Muslim population that number over 10 million and all the women of Kenya in general, numbering an approximate 16 million, as a luminary in the popular Orange Democratic movement (ODM) that won a resounding win against an unpopular government and unpopular government driven constitution Bill IN 2004-2005. The popular ODM was believed by the majority of Kenyans in being the vehicle that could bring Kenyans to a true political and democratic dispensation order and Nazlin’s tireless and selfless efforts are well enshrined in the history of Kenya. Her journey with the referendum debate in Kenya started as being on of the first leaders to voice a big No, through the media in public, to the unpopular government driven Wako Bill as early as August 2005 followed by a full page supplement she bought in the Local Sunday Nation – the largest selling newspaper in Kenya, where she gave a critical analysis of the unpopular Bill and made her stand on a NO to the Bill – The first Kenyan leader to do so.
In 2004 Nazlin was in the forefront rejecting the said government proposed constitutional draft Bill through mass mobilization of women, the Muslim Community, leaders and the general public through press conferences, a full page paid for supplement on the ills of the said Bill written, published by her through the National Muslim Council of Kenya banner, public fora, demonstrations, rallies and public meetings canvassing Nairobi and coast provinces and which were well highlighted by the Press/media. Her platforms, capacity, accomplishments and plans including her said aggressive campaign against the said draft Bill apparently impressed the Hon. Raila Odinga who was the opposition leader and Minister of Roads and public service at the time and fortified by the supreme roles and mandates he offered me, we decided to pool our energies together to further our ideologies for the Nation which culminated into the well-known popularized public political union that fused the two of us together in a powerful political opposition force to contend with in 2004. Being its sole leading female luminary gained another name from the masses as ‘Mama Orange’ and the founders of the initial core team that pulled in other leaders and the mass public to join our popular ‘orange movement’ as we canvassed the entire nation together and I had the role of speaking for the opposition force in most press/media news interviews and talk shows, our massive public rallies throughout the Nation as one of the leading speakers in opposition to the government and opposing the government’s proposed draft constitution Bill while furthering our cause as the orange team because of her vocalness, popularity with the masses, history as a human rights defender, her willingness to put her head in the lions mouth so to speak for public interest, her articulacy and oratory skills on all public, national and opposition issues, grasp of the unpopular Bill, knowledge and history of the entire constitutional review process for Kenya and what Kenyans needed in a constitution and its leadership. These included our rallies at the Nyayo Stadium and several at Uhuru Park in support of the media houses and press freedom after the infamous government raid on the standard group and her very vocal speech during this rally and earlier with the honorable Raila Odinga outside the Standard offices at the I&M building in the CBD amongst many other throughout the Nation.
KICC NIGHT VIGIL; Nazlin has further traversed the localities bringing calm to hot-spots and the dissenting voices and troubled gathering during the vote count spots literally saving senior police officers from wrath of the public and vice versa saving the public from the wrath of the police including her all-night vigil and tallying of votes at the KICC during the vote count, the winning gathering of thousands of people at the KICC to support us in our landslide victory and the finale celebratory thanksgiving massive public rally at Uhuru Park in Nairobi not to forget the full page article written and published by herself through the National Muslim Council of Kenya in the mainstream newspapers to advice Kenya against the said government proposed constitution Bill on its ills, shortfalls and mischief and what this portended for the nation on two occasions during both the constitutional referenda in 2005 and again in 2010.
Thus she played a tremendous leading role as a founding frontline runner and sole female luminary of the opposition force in the rejection of the government proposed daft constitution Bill long prior to and during the 1st Constitutional referenda held in 2005 resounding a landslide humiliating defeat to the government and that gave ride to the entire opposition, save for me, is part of the Coalition government today in the positions of Prime Minister, two deputy Prime Ministers, the vice president, speaker of the National assembly and deputy speaker, top officers of the judiciary, several ministers and assistant ministers and national security organs as well as heads of foreign missions and am well known to have vehemently and publicly opposed and riddled what I verily believe to be an illegal coalition imposed upon the people, founded as a result of orchestrated violence, genocide and murder of innocent civilians and bring the Country to its knees just so as to craft a power sharing formula in a so-called ‘National Accord’.
KENYA – CONSTITUTIONAL MAKING PROCESS AND REFERENDUM 2010; Nazlin was once again in the forefront of the constitution making this time in 2010, again the sole female leader and sole Muslim leader in the forefront and on a light a candle peaceful mission, transversed the Nation in outreach to leaders and the masses, mobilized the media and published a full page paid for expose on the dangers hidden within this new constitution and what it portended for the Nation urging the masses to vote a big NO! in the referendum which article was titled, the proposed constitution; the hidden truth published in the Sunday Standard on July 18th 2010 which raised great public appreciation at her efforts in highlighting the dangers of the proposed constitution and received overwhelming response from Kenyans and the world over. Save for joining a prayer meeting with other faiths in solidarity at the Uhuru Park Nazlin only joined hands with the former President and not as part of the NO team or secretariat but independent and in the interests of both sides of the political divide and not for any other purpose save that her approach was issue oriented, focused on sensitization, outreach and education with overall tones of tolerance and peaceful dignified non-confrontational process which I felt he too had in common with me. The retired Presidents rally which she joined him in Suswa, rift valley which was heavily covered by the press.
Prior to Nazlin has crisscrossed the entire nation with over 40 rallies and meet the people tours starting with a massive public rally held in her honor in Kisumu at the Jomo Kenyatta sports ground in Kisumu where the public pressed upon her to declare her interest and run for the presidency of Kenya. She has campaigned throughout Nyanza endorsed by all the topmost Muslim leadership as the Candidate for the block Muslim vote which endorsement was quickly adopted throughout the Nation by leading Muslim Clerics and which were heavily captured by the press.
She is very loved by the people of Kenya as well as in Nyanza – a political hot-sport, as she has taken uncountable development projects throughout the grassroots and condensed her projects on HIV/AIDS as Nyanza is the hardest hit of this pandemic and determined to serve the people as their president, which he openly exhibited riled and agitated him to no end. And feeling the irreplaceable vacuum her absence and opposition caused to his campaign he once told her that he would never let Nazlin reach the ballot for presidency nor any elective seat and that she was finished without him. But she couldn’t allow herself to be intimidated as she was carrying a heavy burden on her back of the promises she had made to the people, public trust and confidence in me and her vision, of hailing from a minority community, oppressive gender imbalances suffered by women since creation embedded in negative cultural and social norms delegating the female to humiliating, degrading and inferior lessor roles and having struggled through all these barriers and broken them to improve and create dignified space for women throughout the world with the will of the Almighty God as the one he had chosen to be the role model emulated, celebrated and respected throughout the world she had to brace herself of his intimidation and anger for the sake of womankind, her sisters, daughters and posterity to come and continue soldiering on and clear the un-trodden path of all thorns to ease their journey who would follow behind. So fortified with such weighty responsibilities, spiritual enlightenment and massive public support as the peoples project named “president wa mtaa”, against all the odds he placed in her path and which he did, she made it to the ballot as the sole female candidate in the disputed general election 2007 and the first Muslim woman to vie for presidency in Africa.
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