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their constituents.
Secondly, I will talk about the courts. You find that the courts are the ones which deal with cases, both criminal and civil cases.
So you find that somebody was arrested over a case which entitles either imprisonment or at least a fine but there is something
which has been introduced, this thing we call bond. You find that somebody killed somebody else and yet he is freed on bond.
So how can we claim that you are doing investigations and yet that person you arrested committing the crime is already out of
the court cells? The person will interfere with the investigation and he may be considered innocent maybe by bribing those
people who are carrying out that investigation. So, I would like the coming Constitution at least to have some power on those
people who apply for bonds. They should first of all investigate and see the genuineness in the application for that bond because
they give out bonds to those people who come back and hinder these investigations. And, that is not justice at all.
If I come back to education, you find that in Kenya, the most well paid people are the people who do the greatest work. Go to
primary schools And nursery school teachers, those are the people who are lowly paid for. Most nursery teachers don’t have
job security in that they can lose their job at any time. They live at the mercy of the B.O.Gs, the P.T.A and others. So, I would
like the coming Constitution, through the ministry concerned, to ensure that such people be paid either through the TSC or their
salaries be checked by the concerned body and I think the nursery school teachers make sure that a child from home is able to
read, write and even express him or herself and yet (s)he is the person who is, very much demoralized by being given the lowest
salary possible in Kenya. So such people should be… there should be something done for them.
Then, if I come on the security issue, you find that nowadays possessing a firearm is like buying plates, from the shop. So, most
of the firearms are in the possession of many people because either the government or the Constitution has allowed those in
security to have them. Like the police, they are allowed to own those firearms when they are not on duty. When they are not on
duty, they’ll simply use the firearms to rob other people. So I’d like the coming Constitution, to declare a strategy on the
possession of those firearms in order to have good internal security.
If I go to the presidential candidature and the powers, you find that the President has some powers given to him. But those
powers are somehow being misused because he has the power to hire and fire employees, some senior civil servants and
ministers. And also on the appointment of those ministers, you find that a President may appoint a minister either in the ministry
of finance, local government, agriculture and so on and yet that minister doesn’t know anything concerning that. So, how will
that person manage that? would like the appointment of ministers to various ministries, in order for the government to have
greater development, he should ensure that, if a minister is appointed to hold a certain position, he should be qualified either
professionally or academically but he should not have political affiliation, whereby due to being known, you are appointed to
head a certain ministry which you will later win. Also, on candidature, I think the delegates of the concerned party are the ones
supposed to nominate their presidential candidate. But you find that we have some Members who declare presidential
candidates or they declare themselves to be presidential candidates and yet we have the nomination council of their respective
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