Don’t rush the constitutional review process- Justice Dingake :: Mmegi Online

Botswana’s leading constitutional law expert, Justice Professor Key Dingake, of the national and Supreme Courts of Papua New Guinea, Residual Special Court of Sierra Leone, has advised that the national constitutional review must not be rushed, must be people-centric, and civic education must be done to ensure that the people understand what is happening.

Speaking at a fully packed press conference and public lecture organised by the Botswana Council of Non-Governmental Organisations (BOCONGO) in Gaborone last week, Justice Dingake said the constitutional review was a process that must unite the nation. He said that if the process divided the nation, then it would have failed.

He said the Constitution was a political process as well as a legal process. Dingake stated that it was a political process in that the nation gets consensus from people that a time to review the Constitution has come, and the political leadership must facilitate that process.

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