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also recognize that it will not be the end. If parliament is dissolved, I think what the commission will do, is continue
debating and refining this draft, until the new parliament is in place and when the new parliament is in place we pick it up again
and I am sure the Kenyans will facilitate and will support that kind of process. So we do not want it to die and I believe it will
not die.
One of the things we wanted to do is to make sure that the draft is out, and that is what we have done at present. So at least the
Kenyans know where they want to go. What is very interesting about this document is that he maundu manyinyi muno mena
disagreement. Maybe the issue of land will need to be addressed much more. But Kenyans are speaking in one voice in
many ways. Kenyans all over the country, nio maigiri nimarenda Prime Minister. Kenyans all over the country nio
maigiri nimarenda powers cia president I-reduce-wo. They have been speaking in one voice. It is suprising sometimes.
One man one job. We heard that from the Coast, you know to Western and so on. Again niundu wa uira gukoretwo
bururi uhana. Ati mundu niegukorwo na mawira matano, niekorehwo magana kenda ugwo tukwaretie mbere, na uria
unge ararehwo ngiri inya, na magathii kugura mugathe na iria the same price. These disparities have been there, and I
think the Kenyans are speaking in one voice. There is a lot of harmony in this document and it was not very difficult
for us to agree maunduini maingi. Because Kenyans have been speaking in one voice.
The issue of security as a basic need I also concede. I think security as a basic need is very important. Insecurity in the country
is very high. You go to areas around Lake Victoria and Busia, those areas and you find that they are very very insecure, even
in the fishing and they are attacked sometimes from Uganda and there is no protection. I think insecurity in this country,
whether you are talking about Nairobi, it has been a major issue. I checked in the draft and I found that it is talking about social
security but not the security itself . Infact that has been one of the basic needs. You know, if you cannot walk around at night, if
you cannot keep your ears to open until 10 O’clock for fear of what is going to happen, even the economy itself will not
develop and also the povety itself will not be eradicated. I can tell you in some countries, like you go to Sudan, you find people
working in Khartoum, until about 2.00 a.m. The security is much better than what you have in Nairobi. So I think that is
another issue that we need to look at and I want to keep saying, this is a draft and I am very happy the gaps are been identified
because it will force the commission to sit down and revisit some of these areas.
Now, on the issue of truth and reconciliation, under transitional provisions, there is an attempt at providing issues related to truth
and reconciliation but they are under human rights. Human Rights and Administrative Justice. Where we are talking about
investigating the past crimes and then talking about compensation, talking about reconciliation, talking about rehabilitation and I
think maybe it is possible to work around those provisions, probably to build much more. To think about how do we reconcile?
Because it is true, some of our ethnic communities, mathuire aria aingi, based on the wrong reasons, because of propaganda.
Ukona riu niuguthii to some communities in the Rift Valley, amwe mageciria Agikuyu niyo mamekire uyu, nao aria ange
mareciria ni Kalenjin mekete uyu. But the communities themselves do not sometimes realize that it has been done for political
convenience and political interests of the political elite. So I think that is another important area.
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