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 NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Kenya's president insisted on Friday that a draft constitution pushed through parliament by his ruling coalition amid protests will improve the African nation, despite opposition charges that it gives him too much power.
Lawmakers voted 102 to 61 just before midnight Thursday to approve the draft constitution after three days of violent demonstrations by protesters who also said the ruling party was ignoring a grass-roots review process that demanded sweeping government reforms.
"We have chosen to improve the nation and I am sure we will improve the nation" after years of misrule and abuses by previous administrations, said President Mwai Kibaki, whose allies backed the changes in the draft constitution.
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