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Translator: Corruption has ruined this country. We should go back to our cultures, every society to go back to its culture.
Mtumutungi Lisoroi: Nandi antu baa bagatwika bakuthina kabisa niuntu wonje buu ngatiga ndekera uria ndaritaga ngugi ni
ndetire gutaa mbia indi ngatyiga ndaaithia ntuura iu.
Translator: These people who are coming from other societies or other communities are ruining the communities that they are
working for, so I am suggesting that we should go back to our cultures and we should organize people from their locations, so
that they be do things from the community point of view.
M’mutungi Lisoroi: Ageni beeta guntu nibatige gutiga bathukia nthiguru iu, iria betire.
Translator: Those people who come from other societies should not ruin the economies of the places where they are.
M’mutungi Lisoroi: Ni ndikuthiriria au.
Translator: Thank you very much.
M’mutungi Lisoroi: Angi ni, ndienda kuariria mantu jaa Mau Mau.
Translator: I want to talk about Mau Mau.
M’mutungi Lisoroi: Nthomera.
Translator: This is a memorandum to the Kenya Constitutional Review Commission. We, the members of the Mau Mau
Original Trust being registered trustees, wish to present our views to the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission. The Trust
is nationwide, and we are a branch in Tuge Central, Meru District. We wish to give our views as follows:
In the first place, we thank the Moi Government for the stability it has maintained in the country. We being the freedom fighters
who enabled Kenya to achieve its independence, found ourselves in back water after we gained independence, in that, we
compare like road graders, who after toiling to build a road, are prohibited from using the road they helped to build.
Our complaint now is this, that the Mau Mau having been relegated to the back seat, they have not been given a share of the
cake after independence. They and their children are languishing in abject poverty. We have been very calm for a very long
time, expecting that someone somewhere in authority, will remember our sacrifice, and reward us for our labour, but to date
nothing has been done.
We have concrete evidence that the children of the Mau Mau who happened to get educated are not offered jobs in the
Government or Parastatals on merit, but they are forced to pay bribes in order to secure jobs. In that case, we don’t expect
such a person to perform his/her duties properly, taking into account that he bought the job.
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