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Com. Kabira: Thank you very much John. I want to check whether, Jackson Ndirangu Evans is there.
Jackson Ndirangu: Thank you for the opportunity and I would first like to express my thanks to the commission, and
especially the chairman, for first joining the Ufungamano House, with the Paliamentary Committee. I think that he has got the
interests of Kenyans at his heart and therefore I appreciate the initiatives of the force he has put to bring the two parties
together. So I congratulate the commission, and we so much trust the commission will actually deliver a Constitution, that will
make Kenya a better place to live in. Here I give my proposals on how I would like my country to be governed. I have
actually summarised it, and therefore I will just read it in summary, and if you have any question, I will be there to answer you. I
will be in that position.
First is the Presidential powers: The Presidentail powers should be trimmed, and instead of the powers, Parliament would be
made more powerful. All Presidental appointments, and also all Presidential instituted commissions of enquiries, all government
purchases like the Presidential jet and also some projects like the Eldoret Airport; which have actually atrracted a large sum of
money, that is actually making Kenya go down to economically. I would also propose a vying President, to have a running
mate for the Vice Presidency.
On the Judiciary, I would like the Judiciary to be protected by the law, from political interferance or manipulations. Judges and
other members of Judicial system involved in corruption, or breaching of laws should should be dismissed. Special courts
should be forced to look into police brutality, human rights abuse, children’s abuse, and disabled people’s abuse.
In Education, the government of the day should provide free and compulsory education in primary schools. Civic education
should be enjoined in the current school’s syllabus; to make people aware of their Constitution. Because, as I stand here now,
I am about 28 years, and I don’t know anything of our current Constitution, but I thank God because they have actually made
me come this far peacefully. Also on education, I would propose, formation of an Independent Commission, which would like
at teachers welfare such as salaries, working conditions, transfers, promotion, recruitment and retirement exercises. Schools
administration and management and uses of school funds, student (inaudible word) in schools. Also the commission should look
at school dirt, sanitation facilities, water availability e.t.c. The commission should also ensure dialogue exists in these schools or
learning institutions between the administration and their students. I would also propose that, the National Examination Council,
laws should be reviewed, for the selection of high marks pass, should be done on merit, and not on regional basis.
On land, the law on land ownership transfer should be reviewed to prevent the current illegal allocation of public land to private
developers. Our genuine squartters should be settled on government land through a proper policy. Also the government should
establish a funds skim to develop desert regions through irrigation.
On electoral process: The Electoral Commission should be independent and neutral, whereby the chairman and the
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