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56Com. Bishop Njoroge: Tupatie point nyingine?Jimmy Ngoni: Point ya mwisho dowry must be encouraged. Mahari iwepo kwa sababu itajenga uhusiano mwema kwasababu, wanawake watawaheshimu waume wao, majirani and all that. Mwanamke asipewe shamba kwao- mara nyingineamepewa kwa mume wake- mwanamke asipewe kamwe. Wataishi maisha ya kuvuragana hapa na pale. Haya ni mambowenyewe tunajiletea mwishowe yanatuvuruga, yanatukoroga, tunakusanyika “oh sasa Katiba, oh tutafanya nini” Ilhali sisiwenyewe ndio tunaleta haya maneno. Kwa hivyo, ni hayo machache.Com. Bishop Njoroge: Haya kuja hapa ujiandikishe. Wapi Bartholomew Wanyonyi? Atafuatwa na---Bartholomew wanyonyi: Okay, I don’t need that one I have a good voice.Com. Bishop Njoroge: No no, yo have to use because- I will tell you the reason. If you don’t use it, your voice will not gothere and your views will be lost.Bartholomew Wanyonyi: Thank you Mr. Chairman, these are my suggestions. My names are Bartholomew Wanyonyi andsome people call me Omusambwa. These are my suggestions; about government, there should be what we call separation ofpowers. The Executive, Judiciary and the Legislature: that each should not interfere with the other. For example, even seniorappointments like the Head of Civil service should be vetted by Parliament, not the President. For example government shouldcontrol the calendar of elections. It is the Parliament which should decide when general elections should be called and not thePresident. Also, what I am saying is that powers must be vested in Parliament and not in the Presidency. This will eradicatecorruption, incompetence and sycophancy. Also, Ministers should not be chosen from Parliament. They can also be chosenfrom the private sector. That one actually- because there are some efficient technocrats who can’t go to Parliament but if youchoose them as Ministers, they would perform better than Members of Parliament- many of them whom are very rich and gothere because of riches. So we want what we call performance of technocrats- we want managers of the economy.Transition of government: for example if the new government takes over, it should be presided over by the Speaker and theAttorney General. That would actually lessen chaos because we are a newly developing country. We don’t want a vacuumafter election. So somebody must be there to organize transfer fo government from the outgoing President to the newPresident. It should be the Speaker and the Attorney General.Bill or rights: I emphasize the child’s rights. I have found that the education we have is a richman’s education. Actually manychildren are not learning because education is very expensive, not like our days. I am even feeling that during colonial dayseducation was cheaper than our independent days because we learnt colonial times- from 1965- that is when I was in school,