TUESDAY, JULY 9TH, 2002 - ConstitutionNet

tunafanya mambo na hatuoni faida yake, tunataka serikali itusaidie tu kwa hiyo.
Com. Asiyo: Asante sana mzee kwa mambo hayo yako, tafaadhali uende pale mbele uweke sahihi ndiyo tujue hakika uliongea
na sisi leo. Sasa wa mwisho ni mama Julia. Mama Julia kuja uongee kwa maana ingekuwa baya sana kama tungetoka hapa
mbila kusikia sauti ya wale mama ambao ndiyo waongozi wa nyumba na wapishi hawa watu wamelisha vizuri sana ambao
wameongea leo. Sema majina yako yote halafu uongee.
Julia Jeromei : My names are Julia Jeromei, kutoka hapa na nitaongea nikitumia lugha ya Kiingereza. Chairman,
Commissioners, I have only three proposals. I thank you very much because you have given me this opportunity to talk on
behalf of my colleagues wamama one because I came late I will just say a few.
The first proposal is this: We need we as ladies or women in Kenya we have been talking of equality. We want to be equal in
political opportunities. When it comes to jobs or employment, we want to be employed equally. At the same time also in
politics, we are seeing that we ladies in Kenya, we are left behind and that is why when just propose something, those
proposals are not actually considered because we don’t have a lady who is actually inside the politics. We want when we say
our problems right from grassroot that problem will proceed upto the higher level and be considered.
Second proposal, is this; we also need even to be president. I ama sure there is no law or there are no laws in Kenya whereby
a lady cannot be a president and infact ladies understand the problems right from the grassroot, kutoka nyumbani ndani ya
nyumba. They know that one. And those problems can also be enlightened or taken into consideration. We know and we
have confidence in women. We have presidents e.g. Thatcher, she is a very strong lady and she has been doing a lot and we
have been appreciating whatever she suggests. So we need actually to be elected.
If a lady will not get to be the president, we pray it is also our prayer that a lady will be vice president. But we are fighting for
the first not the second always. But you know when it is election we pray that if we will not be th first let us be the second, and
we feel that we shall be represented well.
Also in addition to that in our district, Koibatek, maybe Baringo also we don’t see chief as ladies and it is a question I will be
assisted. I don’t know whether a lady cannot be a chief or an assistant chief. I am sure they can do a lot. Men cannot actually
understand our problems they cannot come until inside the house to know our problems. We only attend the meetings baraza,
and then when we talk of problems that we really want women to be considered nobody will take into it because we do not
have a lady who understands our problems. So it is also our prayer that we get women leaders right from grassroot mpaka
president. Thankyou very much.
Com. Ayonga: Mama Julia,
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