TUESDAY, JULY 9TH, 2002 - ConstitutionNet

Esau Tessot: Thankyou Madam Commissioner, I have a few points here may be to forward to the new constitution. May
firstly, Esau Tesot is my name; I think in the next constitution we should adopt majimbo system of govt. that is one.
Number two, under the same majimbo should run their own affairs in every jimbo. I mean today like we have the provinces.
Every province should govern itself and we should have one parliament with the same representatives should go into that
supreme parliament…… End of Tape 3 side A:
Side B..Cont……. We should be the watchdog of the government which has formed the government.
The winning party that one I said should form the government . Judiciary should be independent.
6. The local government should be independent as follows.
7. Should be governed by its by-laws within a given area and the chairman be elected by wananchi.
8. We should have no additional constituencies from the existing ones. Because many people are fighting to have more now
as this will drain off the resources of the taxes of wananchi. So we should not have more constituencies instead we should
have less constituencies so that the country will stablize financially.
9. There is this issue of rights. Individual rights should be respected whether be property, land or anything asset that is
owned by property.
10. The next one is education, I propose that the pre-primary education to be taken by the government upto to the primary
level and then when you know you are about to get to the higher school I am sure everybody will be prepared for the
higher education.
11. The next one is the hospitals. Hospitals should be run by the government. And the same government to make sure that
drugs and personnel is well cared for.
12. Environment. The same majimbos to run the environment within their respective areas and the produce from the same
natural resource should circulate within the jimbo not Nairobi or wherever.
13. The other point is that all of us should respect taxes. We should respect taxes so that the government in power will be able
to in return buy drugs, school whatever or other facilities, to provide services that is what I mean. (Com.Asiyo: inadible)
Yes we have got to respect and pay taxes.
14. Let me go to the agriculture. I would propose that a law to be in place especially those who have large farms. If the farm
is not utilized they should be penalized so that the country will be able to produce sufficient food.(interjection)
Com. Asiyo: Why don’t you suggest that you be taxed instead of penalized?
Essau: Penalty is taxes so that the government can collect taxes on idle lands or sub-divide that same land to others.
Com. Asiyo: Next, I can see your time is up.
Esau Tesot: Thankyou. May be the last one let me go back to education, is the setting up of exams. For example, we are
told in the rural Turkana or those areas of Lokichogio there are no traffic lights. How can you set an exam for the child in
Nairobi the same same question to be for the same child in Lokichogio?
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