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I will move straight away to the political parties. They suggested that the political parties should be practical and involve
themselves in nation building. They should be able to unite and educate people on their rights and should be able to provide
checks and balances. They also said these political parties should care for our national security. They also suggested that the
Constitution should also regulate the formation, management and conduct of all political parties. They also suggested that in
order to have a strong government, we should not have so many parties. They suggested that there should be two strong parties
making up the the government.
Legislature. They said that certain appointments should be vetted by the Parliament, that is; the Chief Justice, Chief Magistrate,
Attorney General, Solicitor General, Provincial administration, let us say P.C.s, D.Cs, Secretary to the cabinet and Permanent
Secreries to the ministries, Chief of the General Staff, Police Commissioners, Commissioner of prisons. Also Vice Chancellors
of the universities should be vetted by the Parliament, and in future, should be made full Chancellors of public universities. They
said they should also control the contracts and tenders given by the Government so that they they ensure that such contracts are
not given to conmen. They also said that somebody who intends to contest for Parliamentary seat or presidency, for
Parliamentary seat they suggested that somebody should be 35 years and above. For a President, they said that he should be a
minimum age of 40 years.
Let me go straight away to the basic rights. They said that at the moment, we do not have provision of fundamental rights for
our Kenyans, such as social economic ans cultural rights. They also suggested that the death sentence to life sentence, to
respect freedom of life. They said that it is not good to give someone death sentence. They should be given life sentence so that
we are giving people life iwe we are not busy killing people. And also, they suggested that the Constitution should guarantee
security of life and property. They should provide health care, water, education to all. School going age must attend, must go to
school. In which case, the provision for free education should be looked into. They also said there should be freedom to
worship, freedom to security. Otherwise the rest of the items will be found in the memorandum.
Com. Ayonga: Thank you Bwana Etale. Bwana Etale unaweza kutupatia memorandum kule na uende ujindikishe. Moses
Angote? Moses Angote? Joshua Ambubi ?
Joshua Ambubi: My names are Joshua Kwendo Ambubi. I’m here to represent the views of the Abahando people, that is
Ebuhando sub-location of (inaudible) location. The memorandum is a bit long but am just going to highlight only on the electoral
system and process.
We are of the view that the current geographical constituency system should be changed. For example the Abahando people
who are bordering Nyanza province, since independence those Abahando people have never been represented effectively.
Infact administratively, they are in Kisumu district, in Nyanza province, yet their existence as the Abahando and Banyore has
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