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come up with conclusive ideas. For example, you are – we learned of another person, -although that person is dead-, saying
that the body of the late Mzee Jomo Kenyatta be taken to court because of things he did when he was alive. So we need some
– we need people who are a bit learned.
Then I come to the office of the Arttoney General. The Arttoney General’s office these days is not respected. Now and then
we hear that Amos Wako is being sued and sometimes back we were not hearing the office of the Arttoney General when Mr.
Charles Njonjo was there. It was very much honored. So we want the office to be honored. Because the office is not honored,
that is why we are hearing files missing, files are missing.
And then we come to today. When a person is caught and is taken to court –may be he has committed a bit serious crime, we
keep on hearing that the ruling is not being made because the committal documents have not come from the office of the
Arttoney General. It seems that he is a bit reluctant or the people concerned are not serious with their jobs, and in the long run
we hear the person has, –yaani the evidence is not there or the file has missed- then you see the person being set free.
I would rather say this, or I would rather add this, we at least try to use the Islamic law. In fact somebody had mentioned it
here, –if you steal your hand is cut, the next time you steal, the other hand is cut -. I would also support that because, a person
steals here or a person kills somebody is taken to court and is put in remand, and then in a very short time you just see the
person here and the person will still go on with committing other offences, because may be somebody big there is- is having a
shade .So I’d rather say if a person commits a crime the trial should not stay long, he should be sentenced either to death and
people witness that the person has died.
We come to education: I support the old system of 7:2:4:3 because it was a bit concentrated, and the people we had during
that time were a bit serious with studies. And then the minister for education, or any minister who is given the job, the person
should be qualified. I don’t want to emphasize on that because it has been said here.
We come to boundaries: Boundaries, this one has affected our constituencies so much and we hear of boundaries when we
come to election. This one is done so that it can favor the person to be elected in that area. The ‘gerry mandering,’ – it is so
called, ‘them who do lose’. For example, the Maragua district that was cut from Thika. Currently they are – they do not know
where the headquarters are, and if they know there is a dispute. They want the headquarter to come at kenol. You know
Kenol, at the junction. And it was only done that so that the constituency can suit somebody, so that he can enter or he can go
to parliament. Not forgetting districts like Laikipia. It is a very big district and the administration there is very much poor. The
headquarter is at the border of Laikipia district and Nyeri district, so they can –them who are curving the boundaries, don’t
think of the services to give to the people, but the population- because the people there love you – they belong to such and such
a party; then you hear of a boundary or a district being curved.