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Provincial Administrations should be removed. The powers of the president should be shared. His functions should be outlined
correctly. There should be a Prime Minister, The prime minister to run the government and be answering questions at the
Parliament. President goes to the Parliament ones in a year and cannot be questioned.
Parliament should not be misused. There should be development fund to develop Constitutuencies. MPs and their wives
should be telling us where they are getting their money and these will finish corruption. Judiciary, and Courts should be free of
any interference from any Executives. Parties’ registration should be Constitution rights. Those parties should also be given
state funding. Defectors should be stopped to participate in by-elections. Land. Title should be taken care off. We don’t want
squatters or land less people.
Campaign Fund: There should be a limit of the money a campaigner is supposed to use. The money should be established to
see whether it comes from the council. We want a Commission known as Permanent Land Commission to oversee the
problems of those who don’t have land and a place to live. We are recommending that in evey Constituency there should be
Peoples complaints Commission. The Commission should be composed of opinion leaders religious leaders, those people
should listen at the complains of the electorate against their leaders e.g. members of parliament, and Civic leaders. In turn there
should be a Constituency referendum to justify the issues Raised by the constituents.
The votes cast be counted in the polling station. Rights of voters should be respected anybody above 18 years is supposed to
have an I.D, or passport. The two should be allowed to be used in the voting. Election should be scrapped as it consumes a
lot of money. We are proposing the removal of those terminologies such as opposition. Because in our cultural norms, - mtu
akitwa ni mpinzani, watu hawatakusikiliza. Wataona kama wewe, -(proverb) Kwa hivyo, there are some parties that are taking
advantage because of our cultural norms, and using the tittle opposition. So we are proposing, the leader of the party that has
won majority votes, or majority seats of parliament, be recognized as the leader of the majority party.
And the leader of the party or parties that have the minority be considered as the leader of the minority party or parties.
Whatever they want to call it or the leader of the Government in waiting, our drafts people will want it to be. But the word
opposition be removed forthwith, if that is possible.
Ahsanteni.
Com. Wanjiku: Thank you very much Dr. Methu. … Mary (inaudible). She is not there. … Elizabeth Wangare…
Elizabeth Wangare: Commissioners na washiriki hamjambo? These are views of the entire
Children should be taken to school without any charges. Some of them are becoming chokora because there parents cannot
afford there school fee. … … ….