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The other issue is about security. Police patrols should be intensified, but harassment should come to an end. And then the
regional policemen should be transferred to another station after serving for one year or two at most, to avoid being biased with
overhauling cases. This is not an issue where the policeman stays for ten years at one station. His gunfires at…(inaudible)
otherwise if he gets to know you, even your grandparents, you seem like friends.
Primary education should be made free and compulsory. The government should provide a way to take care of HIV/positive
children unconditionally. That’s my presentation.
Thank you.
Com. Wambua: Thank you very much. Translation please…
(Translation is done in Kikuyu)
Com. Wambua Thank you. Can we have Paul Ndumia?
Paul Ndumia: My name is Paul Ndumia Kariuki.
Interjection
Com. Wambua: Hiyo Dumia imetoka wapi?
Paul: Ndumia. (He then spells his name).
Laughter.
Paul: Okay, President should not be above the law. The Parliament but not the President should appoint the Vice President.
The government has to give free hospitals and free education, because we are giving taxes to the government.
All the toll stations in Kenya have to be banned because toll stations are benefiting some people but not the government. The
government has to take care of the forests, because people who are benefiting alone are stealing forests. The people who are
benefiting from the forests are the foresters and the forest guards, because they are selling trees at low prices and the money is
not for the government.
Number six: The police under the Kenyan government who will take bribes should be sacked. That is the presentation I have.