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good deliberations today.
Now, let me say something. The commissioner will give you the over-view and highlights and summaries of the document that
we have given you. We hope that everybody has a copy but for now if you do not have a copy, please do be kind enough to
share with your neighbours. We appreciate and we are aware that it is a very short time. You cannot be able to read a very
long document like this. It consists a lot of things. She will tell you that all the things that are contained in this document are the
things that wananchi have actually said. Not only in Gatundu North, all over the country. She will go through all that. Once she
does that, she will then ask you to respond either in a form of a question, or in a form of a comment, or in a form of additions; if
you think there is something that has not been put in that you would have liked to be included.
Indeed, today is not picking views as we did, but nonetheless, she is very flexible on that because she has promised that if there
are things that wananchi here think should be included and they are not included, she still has the mandate to go and meet and
then they include those sort of things.
Let me mention something else. After this, there is what you have heard been called the National Constitutional Conference
which will be held in Nairobi. Infact a date has already been fixed. It will be 28 th of this month at the Bomas of Kenya. In that
conference, there will be a total of 622 members that will discuss this draft. It will not be a full constitution until they have
discussed it and agreed on it, and she will also explain on that. So if there are issues that you people think that should be
included, this is the best time so that they will also be discussed during that time.
Let me also mention this. Last time during our civic education we told you the organs of this review process and we mentioned
about the National Constitutional Conference with 622 people. We also told you that part of that group will be the MPs who
are already our Members of Parliament both elected and nominated. They will then be the political party representatives. I think
every party will be nominating one person to be present during that particular conference. Then there will be the civil society, the
religious groups, the women organization and so forth. They will also will present their own people; but we as wananchi, we
have also been given an opportunity to send our own delegates there. What has happened is that every district was going to
send 3 people and the way we were actually to nominate these people, it is actually not nomination, we were to elect and a
process has already gone through, we have already elected through an electoral college that was formed through the regulations;
and we have identified 3 representatives from this District called Thika District, who will be our delegates and those are the
people who will debate on our behalf because we cannot all be there, on our behalf, this document.
One of them managed to come today but we were waiting for the other two, if they come I will introduce you to them. I will
also introduce to you the one who is here so at least you can see him and what we are saying is, during this session, we are
picking whatever you are saying. This is a very short session if you think you have other things you want added later on when
you read this document in full, you can also bring this information to us at our offices in Murang’a, District Co-operative House
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