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well as the senior appointments. The role of the President will be ceremonial.
There should be provision for a coalition Government. – This will go along way to improve transparency and accountability.
We shall avoid a scenario where people are saying that it is our party that is ruling, now we are eating and hiding so many
things. The Parliament should control its own calendar, that is prorogation, and dissolution of Parliament. This would go a long
way in promoting Parliamentary Independence. We shall not have a stituation where the President says that Direction Deeds is
a secret weapon. MPs should be full time employees of the public, to avoid instances of lack of quorum. Virtually the majority
of MPs in Kenya today do not go to Parliament because they are allocated only 15 hours per week, and so, they are busy
eating the loot that they call their salaries; they don’t serve the public. I would like to say that MPs should only run for a
three-year term, after which, they would be barred by the Constitution.
The Constitution should provide for the powers of recall over members of Parliament. When we elect MPs we have no powers
to control them until five years, so we want this time to form a Committee, a Constituency Committee, that will mobilize the
Constituents to discuss the MP, and consequently pass a vote of no confidence over that person who is not performing. That
one will help us to have a performing Parliament. The current Parliament is not performing at all. MPs should act with
instructions from the Constituents. They should seek peoples’ mandate before important registration or division. For example,
the list of shame. I don’t know whom they consulted when some of them walked out without voting. There are so many things
that we are disappointed about. They should consult us.
There should be one Commission to review salaries for members of Parliament and all civil servants. This would avoid a
situation where a bunch of people are sitting down to increase their salaries without regard to other workers. They think they
are the only workers who require good salaries. We want one Commission for the civil servants, for the solders, and for the
MPs, because we are all public servants and we cannot be treated specially.
Com. Lenaola: I am adding you two more minutes.
Moses Thurima: Two more minutes. Okay. The President should be impeached while in office. Section 14 of our
Constitution says that the President cannot be taken to court when he is in office. This time, we want him to be taken to court.
He should not be treated like God once he assumes the office. The President should not appoint High Court Judges. This
should be done by the Common Wealth Bench of distinguished Judicial Officers.
The public should be protected from the Lawyers, that means the Government should provide a Lawyer. The Lawyers are
using law to improverish the Kenyans, so we need a Lawyer at least for every person, whenever there is a case. Legal
education should be introduced in schools. They should be put in curriculums, so that there will be no situation where we are
being taught law by the Police, by the courts, by the chiefs and so on. We need to own the constitution and the laws of Kenya.
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