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26 operate, or be affiliated to any private health facility. The health personnel should be paid properly in order to deter them doing other business apart from which they have been employed to do. The health officers should abide and follow proper health edicts according to the hypocritical oath they have taken upon graduation. Herbal medicine should be allowed to be administered by licensed traditional health workers as an alternative medicine. Cost sharing in our government hospitals should be abolished. Public health rules should be strengthened and enforced in order to eradicate many communicable diseases. That is, public health rules should be enforced. First aid should be taught in schools, as a curriculum subject and also in our health institutions, free of charge, including volunteers. First aid kits should always be available in public offices, public transport systems and in all motor vehicles. In order to control the Aids/ HIV menace, an Aids.. (Inaudible), drug should be imported, given free by the government, to all HIV patients, in our medical institutions. Shelter: In shelter we also include drug issues in our country. Every Kenyan has a right to own or inherit anywhere in Kenya. Landlords should be deliberated in order to have a balanced ownership of land. A person with more than 300 acres of land not properly utilized, should automatically lose the right of ownership. Interjection. Com. Wambua: Bwana Maina, tulisema uzungumzie mambo ambayo yako katika hiyo memorandum, na tukasema usiyakamilishe sana na muda hautaturuhusu. Kwa hivyo, ongea maneno ambayo umeandika kwa kifupi halafu, memorandum tutaichukua, tutaisoma sisi wenyewe, halafu tutasikia ni maneno gani ambayo umezungumzia hapo. Kwa hivyo, highlights pekee yake tafadhali. Maina: A person with more than 100 acres not properly utilized, should automatically lose right of ownership to the government, which should then be subdivided the land to landless squatters in the country. There should be a right of inheritance of land or property by either spouse, siblings, parents or any other person desirable, by the owner of the said piece of land or property according to the customary wishes of the said owner of the property. Kwa upande wa uchumi,-Economy: Kenya being an agricultural economy, there should be a need for the cause of produce of agricultural crops, to be subsidized by the government e.g. fertilizers, seeds, insecticides, fungicides and others. The road systems, particularly the feeder roads should be properly maintained in order to aid the flow of the produce to the market. Taxes should also be minimized at an affordable rate. This one. …(Not clear) taxes should be abolished. Local resources should also be controlled and should benefit local residents.
27 Administration: ………… (Com. Wambua interjects). Com. Wambua: Naona utatupatia hiyo memorandum, halafu tutaenda kuisoma.. basi malizia ile ya mwisho halafu ukomee hapo. Maina: Wacha nimalize hii halafu niwapatie. Administration: The presidential candidate should garner 50% of popular votes in order to be declared president, upon which, if there is non-who garners the said percentage, there should be a run-off, between the first two candidates with more votes. Minimum qualifications of Presidential aspirants should be 35 years, and not above 64 years of age. The defeated president in a poll, should hand over power upon swearing of the President. Com. Wambua: Sasa tutakoma hapo bwana Maina, tafadhali patiana hiyo maandishi hapo, halafu tutasoma sisi wenyewe, maanake muda sasa –hata umepitsha hiyo dakika kumi- tafadhali. We will read the memorandums. We will read them very carefully in English, lakini Kwa kifupi tu, yule ambaye alikuwa anatafsiri, hebu yapitie yale ambayo amesoma kwa Kikuyu, halafu yeye ataweka kule, tutaenda kuisoma. Peleka huko tafadhali. Translator: (does the translation in Kikuyu). Com. Wambua: Tumwite Angelo K. Muchiri. Angelo K. Muchiri… Haya, Angelo K. Muchiri hayuko. Basi tumwite John Karanja. Ndung’u Jesse Kamutu…. Jesse: (speaks in kikuyu) Translation: I’ m Ndung’u Jesse Kamutu, a farmer and salesman by profession, I am representing farmers as a leader as well as a women’s group leader. As a farmer, I would like to see the following: ♦ We would like to have basic infrastructure, that is, the provision of all feeder, all-weather roads. ♦ Protection, i.e. the local farmers to be protected against grabbing. (He then translates into Kikuyu). ♦ Research finding. That is to research on crop production to be revealed directly to the farmers. For example,(speaks in Kikuyu), so we would like that as soon as their research findings are out, we would like those seeds to be directly taken to the farmers, at a subsidized price. ♦ Marketing channels: Creation of marketing channels such as farmers marketing groups. (He then speaks in Kikuyu) so
Page 1 and 2: CONSTITUTION OF KENYA REVIEW COMMIS
Page 3 and 4: 3 Roselyne Nyamato - Program Office
Page 5 and 6: 5 (Interjection) Kwa hivyo tungelip
Page 7 and 8: 7 Yangu ya mwisho ni hii habari ya
Page 9 and 10: 9 control the use of land. The gove
Page 11 and 12: 11 Answer: Eee, aliniambia tu niwap
Page 13 and 14: 13 Gachomba: Okay, haya maoni natoa
Page 15 and 16: 15 Ni makosa makubwa sana. Kwa saba
Page 17 and 18: 17 administration, for it has prove
Page 19 and 20: 19 Third, it’s about the people w
Page 21 and 22: 21 (Translation is done in Kikuyu).
Page 23 and 24: 23 Haya, ile jambo lingine nilikuwa
Page 25: 25 Com. Wambua: Okay, twendelee sas
Page 29 and 30: 29 come up with conclusive ideas. F
Page 31 and 32: 31 Com. Wanjiku: Thank you very muc
Page 33 and 34: 33 chake. Nafikiria nitafikia hapo,
Page 35 and 36: 35 maruna matari miga noria magerer
Page 37 and 38: 37 Then we come to Judiciary: ♦ J
Page 39 and 40: 39 kulingana na vile tunataka,- zet
Page 41 and 42: 41 David Macharia: I think what the
Page 43 and 44: 43 there-Thomano Kiaire, Martha Nya
Page 45 and 46: 45 Interjection from Com. Wanjiku:
Page 47 and 48: 47 naona. Lakini nyinyi wenyewe mfi
Page 49 and 50: 49 Interjection. Com. Wanjiku: tafa
Page 51 and 52: 51 walichaguliwa ma- D.O na ma-Chie
Page 53 and 54: 53 But they were not, - it was not
Page 55 and 56: 55 credible, people with good integ
Page 57 and 58: 57 Corruption nio niyagerero kunino
Page 59 and 60: 59 Kwa kuhesabu, (inaudible) hapa n
Page 61 and 62: 61 Chairman to be elected by the ma
Page 63 and 64: 63 Another speaker: (repitation. It
Page 65 and 66: 65 Kama anasaidiwa nanjia mzuri…
Page 67 and 68: 67 wanalingana na serikali. Sio ati
Page 69 and 70: 69 Councilor: Karibu sana… karibu
Page 71 and 72: 71 be disciplined because of bad be
Page 73 and 74: 73 Ya mwisho, mimi ningeuliza barab
Page 75: 75 Meeting ended at 5.30 p.m. &&&&&

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