Lawyer Charles Nyachae now says the Parliament is to blame for the failed implementation.

Appearing before IEBC's selection panel vetting for the position of the commission's chairperson, Nyachae said it is regrettable that the resistance by the National Assembly had left gaps in the constitutional reform process.

The former Chairman of the Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution (CIC) told the panel that despite the commission's efforts to guide the transition into Kenya's 2010 Constitution, some of the most critical laws were either watered down or stalled by political interests. "While we wrote most of these laws, one or two of them fell short of the mark, not because of our failure, but because of the process they had to go through.

By the time they got to Parliament, they were significantly weakened," said Mr Nyachae.