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Francis Machira: Commissioners, watu wa Kinamba, langu ni kuuliza wananchi wa Kinamba. Ati hii ndiyo siku yetu ile
tulikuwa tunangonjea hapa kwetu. Commissioners wamefika na watakuwa na sisi tuwapatie kile kitu tumefanya. Ile mipango
yote mmefanya, tafadhali muwapatie ili Kenya yetu iendelee. Asanteni na tutulie na tutaanza. Commissioners watatuambia vile
tutafanya kutoka saa hii asante.
Com. Ibrahim Lethome Asante sana. I now want to constitute this is a meeting of the Constitution of Kenya Review
Commission, sitting at Kinamba catholic church. We are here to receive your views about the Constitution. It is a very
important day for you. Because without your views a new Constitution cannot be prepared. With me are two other
commissioners. To my left is Com. Ibrahim Lethome Lenaola. And to my right is Com Lethome Asman. And my name is
Professor Okoth Ogendo. I am a Commissioner.
We also have staff who are sitting across there: to the right, Treza Opondi the Programme officer. Jomo Nyaribo the Ass
Programme Officer. And Martina Odhiambo the verbatim recorder. Every thing we say here will be recorded, will be taken to
Nairobi, will be transcribed, and will be analysed. We shall then write a report for this constituency to be called the Laikipia
West Constituency report. That report will come back to you here, together with the report for the whole country. You will
have 60 days to study that report and to debate it and to verify it, to ensure that we have correctly recorded your views. There
will also be a draft Constitution which will come back to you. And you will also have an opportunity to discuss it.
Now this is the way we ae going to proceed: if you have a memorandum, and you don’t want t address the Commission, we
will ask you to register that memorandum: you will come forward and sit infront here and we will give you five minutes to tell us
the main points in the memorandum. If you don’t have a memorandum, and you want to address the Commission we will also
ask you to come and sit infront of us and address the Commission. And we will give you between 5 and 10 minutes to do so.
You may speak in any language you choose. You can address us in English and Kiswahili, or any local language that you are
comfortable with. If you address the commission in a language other than English or Kiswahili, there will be an interpretor.
Remember that you are addressing the Commission, and your views are your own. The act under which we operate, protects
you against any harassment from any quarter in respect of anything that you say to us. It also protects you when you are coming
to this meeting or when you are leaving this meeting. So don’t be afraid to say anything that you think we ought to hear.
Whether there is a chief here or a DO or a DC, remember that you should not be frightened by the presence of any of those
people. You are addressing the commission, it is your chance after 39 years of independence. You now have an opportunity
and don’t squander that opportunity by saying that I am afraid of the DO, I am afraid of the Chief, I am afraid of the DC. This is
the commission meeting. It is not the meeting of the Government.
Now we will take the list. And we will go down the list in accordance with the order in which you have registered. But if you
have an urgent matter that you want to attend to or if there are school children or hospital workers or the disabled, who requires