The drafters of our constitution left the door sufficiently open for legal executive indiscretion. A reckless concentration of power on the executive weakened oversight institutions and reduced them to tools of the very people whose excesses they were created to censor. The agent now is the principal.
An overly powerful executive was able, within legal bounds, to lay to partial waste, the once seemingly stable constitutional edifice. By simple stroke of the pen, an executive was lawfully expanded to outnumber the backbench making the executive arm of government the de-facto and de-jure law and policy maker, rendering same almost irrelevant to the legislative function. The ruling party backbench trembled its way through voting procedures to legitimise legislative obscenities through long tense nights. The captured University south of the national stadium, caught the sycophancy, donating doctoral degrees and singing praises to invisible merit.
