JUNE, 3RD 2002 - ConstitutionNet

hetoric the affirmative action is only used by the government to lure funds to generate funds and then its state is wrongly used if
affirmative option is supporsed to be used as it is stated in its policy frame work then the fermative option must help the people
of this district with regardless to education for girls.
Translator: Xathi wax lagaqawanilaxa oo wixi lagac oo laxelo laguistacmalo gowolkan ama xormar mel fog balagari laxa.
Ibrahim Tish: The other point is poverty is an issue in this district and if poverty is to be alleriated the current constitution must
give our secondary schools especially grants and bursaries and not on the name currently bursaries is given to secondary
schools on enrolment basis I think that is very wrong we must be given bursaries on the seriousness of the poverty level
currently our poverty level is sixty four percent where as that of the national is fourty six percent.
Translator: Sithi lashegey xathey run taxay iskulatha wax xalagaqabto. Xusussan sekendariga. Lacagta labixiyo oo bursary
loyaqano wa in ilmaxa masakinta lasiyo.
Ibrahim Tish: Finally I think the chairman seems to be pressurising me, I want to touch on the issue of alternative approach to
education. Alternative approach to education because our illiteracy rate in this district is eighty five percent or there about, we
require the current I mean the new constitution to consider how education can be taken to the old people to the people who
have passed the age of school, to those who are perhaps handicapped.
Translator: Tacllinta wa in an thib uegno oo rer guraga ey kafaitheistan.
Ibrahim Tish: Okey now there is a global commitment. Finally I thought the madam told me give me one point. Yes final point.
Ibrahim Tish: With the government commitment on global sorry the education for all which Kenya has is a signatory for. And
therefore if then, education for all as the government has signed and committed itself education for all in North Eastern province
which is targeted at the year two thousand and fifteen is not areality and therefore the new constitution must consider North
Eastern province as a unique case and therefore we must be given resources that are also lumpsome and not compared to the
other part of the country.
Translator: Tii uthambeysey waxa waxe eduation for all waxa waye mutha kathib in qof kasta uu taclin bilash xeli karo.
Speaker: Thank you very much mwalimu those are very bad figures ten percent and twenty two percent enrolment will make
a very bad figures for North Eastern and can we listen to Abdi Shek Hassan?
Abdi Shek Hassan: (Somali dialect) Bismilahi Rahmani Rahim. Waxa laidaxa Abdi Sheikh Hassahn waxana kaxathlaya
thumasha. Daqanka somalitha waxa jirta in gawada xathi u ninka kadinto oo catha lais saro sas dhrateth citi kaxor imata wain
magdaw lagasiya ama laxira. Tan lawadh dhowlada cathithis ayey kuxaisa musliminta tusala xadthan kasoqabto waxa kamit ah
marki bisha Ramathanka lagaro nalka wala thamiya. Kanisathaxana lacag bey kabixiyan lagamanagoyo muslimintana
walagagoya tas dinta nomacuntameyso wain dintena xornima xas lasiyo oo latex galiya.
Translator: Issue of wife inheritance he said that kind of customary law should be abolished the lady should be free to marry
any body she wants.
Abdi shek Hassan: Dinta muslinka cathathis bey dhowlada Kenya kuxaisa tusala xadhthan kasoqabto marki pasbor ad
gosaneysith odh Hajj ka ath ujethith suala an lobaxnen ayey CID ey kuweydineysa ayaga on isku din ana exen bey dintatha
sofaragalinayan tas dhonimayno.
Translator: Muslima are given unnecessary problems for example when they want to go for pilgrimage to Mecca they cannot
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