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Pombe kama ni kupigwa marafuku pombe yote ipigwe marafuku, iwe vodka na iwe busaa yote ipigwe marafuku. Na kama ni
huru, busaa iwe huru na vodka iwe huru. Asanteni.
Com. Nunow: Asante sana, tafadhali jiandikishe pale. Rev. Maina, Rev. Patrik Maina? Reverend ametoka? Okay, Raham
Munianga.
Raham Murianga: My name is Raham Murianga. First of all I am going to speak on Constitutional supremacy.
The Constitutional amendments should not be left for Parliament alone. For any amendment this should involve the public
through the referendum. This is because from the past experience it has been abused.
Now, political parties. Political parties play a very important role in national development and public mobilisation and this should
be regulated by Parliament. This means that the conduct and management should be seen to focus on development
issues,economic and unity of the people. And for any registration of political party or parties, it should reflect that national
outlook and not on tribal basis. The funding of political parties should be self sponsored. The first three political parties should
be supported by public funds. Any political party to be registered should have ten registered Members in every District.
Electoral system: Now, defection should not be allowed during Parliamentary term. Any member defecting should cease to be a
member until after the five years term. And then we should have an election, a by- election should be held.
Coming to legislature, Parliament should be given power to appoint ministers and Ambassadors, top civil servants and
Parastatal heads and this should not be left to the President whereby, we have heard so much mess in the civil service.
Members should be elected on contract terms of five years, and this should be made clear by Parliament and should not be
those ones that will… The terms of the contract should be specified by Parliament not to be that one that will burden the public
funds like the case we had just recently whereby you get that a cook was paid a hundred thousand shillings while we have
university graduates who are merely earning seven thousand shillings.
Now, appointment of cabinet ministers. This should be done by Parliament to determine their qualifications in those posts. There
should be a mechanism whereby all bills passed in Parliament are not defective and do not have negative impact on its citizens.
For example we had the Donde Bill which was rejected and taken to court and this shows some poor ways of enacting Bills in
Parliament. A Bill should not be challenged.
Now, on appointed or nominated Members, this should be done by political parties from each province and there should be
one from each province and the remaining three from the three poilitical parties and one for the President, that gives a total of
twelve.The Members nominated should be above party politics. They should be people of high integrity who have shown
distinguished service to the nation. Nominated Members should not be given cabinet posts as we have seen so much laziness at
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