The current Constitution is not conducive to resolving the unrest in the deep South, said academics and opposition leaders who have been campaigning to amend the charter.

ARTICLE 265 of the 2017 Constitution, which allows the junta to retain its absolute powers authorised by the now obsolete interim charter of 2014, is just dampening the newly promulgated charter – at least in the next one and a half years until a new government takes office.