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appointments of High Court judges.
Special courts should be established mostly to take care of the interests of Religious groups. In the current Constitution, we only
have reference to Chief Kadhi, and we know that we have another enactment Cap 16 157 which allows for the Hinduism on
matters of inheritance, whereas it is very silent, our Constitution is very silent on Christian Religion and how christians or widows
and widowers, can carry out the affairs concerning inheritance and land matters. We should have a Constitutional court to deal
with all matters pertaining to the Constitution.
Local government should be given more autonomous powers to govern matters affecting local authorities. In particular, trust
land and natural resources within their jurisdiction. Mayors in the cities should be elected directly by the voters and preferably
candidature for Mayorship should be non political; Should not have political party affiliation to give it the independence of
operation.
Presidential candidates should qualify… We should make the Constitution to state clearly that only an African Kenyan shall
contest for presidency. Because under the current Kenyanisation, you might end up having another colonialist in the name of the
Leakeys and the like ruling us again and therefore we must insist on a President being an African Kenyan. She or he should
garner atleast fifty percent of registered votes in atleast five of the eight provinces.
The Electoral Commission should be enshrined in our Constitution as a supreme body to govern the timetable of the elections.
Fundamental human rights should be incoporated in the Constitution. And a bill of rights should be clearly stated with the
protection of the minority groups.
The communities should have the right to determine the use of land and that is in reference to trust land and other natural
resources within their premises. Women should be included in the issue of property inheritance without discrimination. Parents
should have the right of inheritance of their childrens' assets incase there are no spouses.
We advocate for eradication of outdated traditions but we propose that we should have other ideals or values in their
replacement. Like genital mutilation of women. Whereas we say it is outdated, only on the premise of medical or health
grounds. Otherwise it is a healthy exercise within the given community, and therefore its replacement should be devised and not
just to be slummed as a primitive exercise because the west people who are advocating against it practise homosexuality which
to most African traditions, is a taboo.
The distribution and use of national resources be incoporated in the Constitution. In other words, the tax payers money should
be incoporated in the Constitution to define use or how the tax payers money should be used country wide. Natural resources
like forests, national parks, marine and minerals should be guarded within the Constitution. Special interest groups like the aged,
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