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Com. Wambua: Okay, twendelee sasa. Tutamwita bwana Peter W. Maina, businessman. Peter W. Maina…
Interjection. (Noise from behind that’s unclear)
Com. Wambua: Peter W. Maina… Five minutes, dakika tano tu msome yale ambayo mmeandika hapa.
Maina: Memorandum of expression for the new constitutional review, by the Kinangop forum on constitutional review.
Minutes:
Com. Wambua Wale wengine nikina nani?
Maina: Iko Stanley M. Wainaina, na iko mwingine anaitwa David Nyanjeri, na huyo Maina… Okay sawa, sawa.
Memorandum of expression on the new constitution review Commission, by the Kinangop forum for the new constitution
review.
Minutes: The members have always put forward the need for a new constitution, and have been willing to take an active role in
this effect. Therefore they have agreed that as a matter of agency, the present constitution should be comprehensively amended
in the following areas, by December 2002.
Education, Health, Shelter, Land, Economy, Administration and Environment.
Education: There should be a free basic primary education for all. There should be loans from the government for all the
students in public universities. That is, the government should provide or give loans to all students in the universities.
The constitution of Kenya should be taught in all primary schools, and should be translated to all languages in Kenya, for ease of
understanding.
There should be tough rules on minor delinquent provinces in order to curb strikes and general lawlessness in our schools.
School administration should be strengthened in order to ensure good learning standard. This will curb teachers engaging in
business and other activities. That is because they have been employed by the government. Refer to the old system of
education, i.e. the old system of government immediately. Private schools should be licensed to operate in strict guidance of the
ministry of education in order to ensure that they meet the standards laid down in the education act. The quota system of
education should be scrapped in order to give way for students in primary schools to be selected to the National schools on
merit…
Afya. (Health): There should be a free medical scheme in our government Hospitals to public health workers should not