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of marital status, to be entitled to inherit property, the land. All Kenyans, the Constitution should be supreme to the customary
law, on issues concerning land and propety inheritance. Because when the men want to oppress us is when they recognise that
they had a customary law. So, we want the Constitution to take care of that.
Lastly but not the least, is that since all the children have biological fathers, we also expect fathers to bring them up, because it
ends up that women bring up the children alone in most cases. When you have a girl child, she gets pregnant, she will end up
bringing up the child alone, while the boys parents stay comfortably at home. We want to share the burden. They shared the
pleasure, we want to share the responsibility of bringing up those children. There should be no child that is a bastard, all
children have got biological fathers. Some of them being very rich and driving Mercedes Benz, when their children are not even
having a meal to eat; whilst they are driving away and being very proud of themselves. We also want to have family planning
facilities near to every woman, so that we don’t have unplanned children; and when we do that, even those women who are
married, their men will run away from home. Na wakikosa pesa huko kwa ndogo ndogo, tena watarudi kule watoto
wakikuwa, wakina mama ndio wanabaki kufanya kazi peke yao. Ndio maanake mnaona mkutano kama hii hamuezi kuona
akina mama wako nyumbani.
Interjection- Com. Wambua: Rita maneno yote si yako kwa memorandum?
Rita Njenga: No those ones are not there, they are not detailed there. Kwa hivyo with those few remarks, I hope that we are
waiting for the cooperation of our dear men, we love you and we want to work with you thank you, very much.(clapping)
Com. Wambua: Rev. Kibiku.
Rev. Robert Kibiku: Thank you Chairman of the commission, and thank you all members. I agree with all the speakers who
have spoken with the views they have given, I will only add a few words.
Presidency: Being a citizen of this country, he should not be above the law, and again, he cannot be a defender of the institution
while he is above it. Apart from political appointments like ministers, the President should not make any appointments. This
should be done by the Civil Service Commission, or an independent commission. The President is package of retirement
should not be a Parliamentary debate. It should be worked out by an independent board, just like that of the civil service. As
you know, the interested parties will work it out in such a manner that they have a hidden agenda so that they may benefit.
Members of Parliament: They too should not serve for more that two terms. We have been advocating that a President alone
should only be there for two terms, and it should be the same with the other Parliamentarians.
Duty free vehicles and other items, should be extended to all Kenyans, and if not; they should not be for even favoured few
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