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Another set-up I would like to emphasize, on and this is on labour movement in our country. I would like to suggest that for
any employee, he or she should be automatically a member of a trade union, related to his or her kind of work. Also the
employers should be mandated to allow their employees, to be members of trade unions. In that line also, if the set-up would
be like today, where we have un umbrella body called COTU. I would like to suggest, that the umbrella body should be
independent, and should be seen to work independently from any manupulation. Therefore, the leaders, that is the Secretary
General, should not run or should not go for any public seat. If he wishes to become an MP or anything, he first resigns from
the Secretary General or from the leadership of COTU.
Another thing I would like to propose concerns the private sector. In the World order today, politics and economics are going
hand in hand, there is no way we can separate the two. I would like to propose in the new Constitution, that the private sector
in a country should be seen to work in line with the government eg. We have associations in the private sector like the
Federation of Kenya Employers. We would like such a body in the government, whereby we have a government official sitting
on the Board of the FKE, so as to see how those people are working, and managing the welfare of it’s people. Thank you.
Com. Kabira: Thank you very Mbugua. Do we have Fred Njenga? Fred Njenga is not there. Josephat Mitambo? He is
not there. Daniel Mwangi? Karanja Mwangi? Karanja you are there okey.
Karanja Mwangi: First of all I would like to start by greeting you all, and thanking you very much for having come here. The
first thing that I would like to say is that, we sould entrench something in the Constitution, that should recognize that, there is a
Creator who created us all, and he created us equal.
Secondly, I am for the unitary form of government, but the federal one; and unitary form of govenment should be the exective
arm should be headed by a President, who should appoint the cabinet from citizens or even foreign people who should not be
necessarily be members of Parliament.
Third, I would like a reduction of the Presidential powers. First of all, he or she should be removed, from being the chancellor
of all the universities. We would like to have a chancellor of the university chosen by the university fraternity, and the main job
of the university chancellor should be soliciting for funds for this university so that many development projects and research can
be undertaken. The President should not also be allowed to appoint the Chief Justice, and the Chairman of the Electoral
Commission, since the Judiciary and the Electoral Commission should be independent bodies; which should be able to carry out
their duties without undue influence.
Fourth, I would like to have a system whereby, all public servants, government officials, the President and the Vice President
have to declare their wealth, before taking over any office; and also after every two years, they should declare the amount of the
property that they have and their income.
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