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investigations have been completed. They should know that we are their bosses because we pay taxes, so that they can get
their salaries. They should respect us. They have been harassing us alot. A suspect must not stay in police cells for more than
three days, and if investigations have not been completed, that suspect must be released. As long as one is not infringing on
another person’s rights and freedoms, he or she should be free to own property and can live in any part of the country. (I’m
about to finish please).
The office of ombudsman, to deal with cases of human rights violation, should be created. The Provincial Administrations
should be abolished, because it has been seen to be a liability to the society. There should not be a requirement, or a licence,
for political meetings; and other meetings of national importance.
The currency should have the portrait of the founding father of the Nation, and other nationalistic pictures such as pictures, of
our beautiful wild animals, our KICC for instance, Mt. Kenya, Court of Arms, Kenyan map, National Flag. We foresee that,
we’ll be having a very huge turnover of Presidents, everytime, and then we shall be required change the currency. We would
like to have a standard way of our currency.
Finally, last but not least, there should be no political zoning. This is where we find problems of opposition zones, the so called
opposition zones, being denied development because they voted for another candidate of their choice.
We have very bad roads in Central Province for instance, just because Central Province did not elect the current government.
We would like to have a system of government, which will allow us to manage our own resources, from our local areas so that
we can benefit fully from our sweat. I beg to stop there thanks.
Com. Wambua: Thank you very much Bwana Mutonga. Nitamwita Boniface G. Mbaiya.
Boniface. Mbaiya: Habari zenu, mine is just to be very brief because I did’nt have any written memorandum. There are a
few points I would like to emphasize that have been mentioned here earlier.
The first one is the issue of police brutality. We have been having alot of police brutality in this country, especially here Wangigi,
because when you just walking at around 6:30 or 7.00 pm, on your way home, sometimes you are chased away, or arrested
and you are taken to the cells for no apparent reason at all. So may be the Constitution that you are trying to come up with,
should have specific clauses to deal with these issues.
The issue relates to the powers which are vested on the President by the Constitution. You realise that those powers are so
enormous. The person who is heading the government is bound to misuse them. So may be they should be limited to a certain
level, whereby the Parliament should be able to control the President rather than the President having excessive powers, even
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