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We also feel that no care for education in pastoral areas, they felt that in those pastoral areas boarding primary schools should
be introduced. Going to public appointments, we are feeling that the public appointments should be done purely on merit or
publications.
On public servants should never be allowed to do private business. On security, they should like that the Constitution to
address the fire arms issue. That the Government should not allow any illegal fire arms. Security officers misusing fire arms it
was the feeling of the members that those security officers should be immediately sucked and be punished favourably by life
imprisonment or hanged.
External aggression: They felt that external aggression should be met by the Ministry before any negotiation is done. They were
feeling that should not be negotiated once we are feeling pain and the aggressors are not feeling pain. They should also be
convicted to feel pain, before we start negotiation. It was also the feeling of those members that home guards who have been
supplied with fire arms should …………. (inaudible) taken back by the Government. There should be nobody like a home
guard with fire arms.
We also felt that security wings of colleagues, prisons should be under Judiciary. And this was because the police do work
together with the Judiciary because they are closer to intervene in the law courts, and they arrest the simplest courts. So it was
the feeling of the members that they should work together with the Judiciary and restrict their departments in the judiciary. The
same to the prisons. When the Judiciary convict somebody he is taken to the prison, so it should be the judiciary who should
be looking after the prison. The prison should be under the judiciary.
Coming to the type of Government, it is the members feelings that the type of Government in this country should be unitary
Government. Where it has three functional arms that are mainly parliament, Judiciary and the Exective. They also felt that there
should be nobody may be elected should be above the law. It was also their feelings that there should be created an office of
Controller and Auditor General whose office should be independent, and that office of Auditor General should be in-charge of
the armed corruption unit.
They went further and talked of elections. They said that elections should be conducted after every five years and it was their
feelings that the Constitution should put in place that everybody who is elected should be in the office for 2 to 5 year term and in
case one wants to recontest he should also have a break of ten years before recontesting. The constituents should be
empowered by the Constitution to fire their elected representatives who may prove unable to deliver. Then registration of
voters should be continous as it is with the ID cards.
Nobody should contest for election after the age of 75 years and the lower age should be 30 years. And for the President the
lower age should be 45 years. No political parties or individual personal groups should claim political poignance or supremacy