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Legislative powers, under section 30 of the Constitution, I’m also saying that it should be reviewed. It should be reviewed to
read that the legislative powers of the Federal Republic of Kenya shall be vested in the Federal Parliament and the Senate. This
shall consist of the Federal State Assembly, the President of the United Federal Republic of Kenya. The Federal Assembly will
make decisions which will, after receiving the presidential assent, be ratified by the Senate. What I’m trying to say here, we
want to remove the powers of the President deciding by himself. If he makes any decision, it should be refered to an
independent body, which will review, look at that particular decision, and be able to ratify it or to refer it back to him. Or even
Parliament, if Parliament makes any decision, like now we know Parliament has what we call 'multi-party system' There is an
area where we find there are more Members from one party in Parliament and they have to make decisions in a biased way.
Such decisions made in Parliament will be sent to the Senate for ratification.
I am also am proposing appointment of Permanent Secretaries, Commissioners or for any type of employment in this country,
we would like the Government to understand that Kenya is now a multiparty state and when it is a multiparty state, we must
share everyhting equitably. Now when it comes to employment, we would like the parties in this country also to be given chance
to nominate candidates for such kind of employment. For instance the President should not be allowed to be the only person
who appoints the Permanent Secretaries. Just the way you Commissioners were appointed, we would like the parties to be
given a chance to nominate the candidates who will be appointed by the President and so to the District Commissioner and so
to the other employment.
About the language to be used in Parliament, as I have said before, there is no need of us to discriminate by way of education.
This is our country and I believe anybody with leadership qualities can lead this country. In Western Kenya we have one very
rich man called Ambwere.Anbwere does not have a university degree but he is capable of managing his business very very
well. What do you need as a country or Government to help people get their welfare/ So, am saying that university degrees
should not be the basis of an election. The official language in Parliament, as we have said before, because you may find
somebody who is capable of really bringing the ideas which can help the counrty to develop and is left out. So we are saying
the official language in Parliament should also be English and Kiswahili and the documents including the Bills, including the Acts,
including the laws and the Constitution must also be in Kiswahili because not all kenyans are learned enough. For instance you
go to court where the judgement is being read in English and you don’t understand English. Even though there is translation, it
may not be very very clear. Today people are being jailed because they do not know what to say. So we are saying if the
official language in Parliament is Kiswahili and English, documents written there should also be in kiswahili and English.
Prolonging and summoning Parliament: Parliament should have its own calendar in which it can prolong itself and not be
prolonged by the President. The President may direct the speaker of the National Assembly to call or summon Parliament if he
feels there is an urgent issue that needs to be deliberated upon by the Parliament. So that is my propasal as regards that.
Actually I have finished, I have already talked about the election of the Mayor. So as far as am concerned, this is a document
am going to present to you, its not yet complete but I will be able to present a complete document which has all sections in one
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