Jubilee Coalition Presidency Extravagance, an Economic threat to Kenya

Based on the new Kenyan constitution promulgated by the former president Mwai Kibaki, The institution of presidency currently consists of the office of the President and that of the Deputy President. This institution shares a common budget in expenditure.
During the presentation of the 2015/2016 fiscal budget at the parliament building, the current cabinet secretary for finance issued a directive that required government offices to cut on their foreign travel and hospitality budget by at least 30%. This has however turned out to be the opposite in the office of the president.
Based on the fiscal audit in the public domain and that from the Bureau of the controller of the budget, the figures of this budget required to be cut by 30%, have inflated by 75%. The trips are characterized by escorts of presidential security personnel and close political friends who get an opportunity to know what it means to have a first class travel.
It is during these trips that the so-called state dignitaries siphon money from the poor taxpayers with no particular economic value. With all accommodation catered for, here I mean food and bed, the senior officials receive up to $400 in a day. Considering a familiar example of recent trips that started in The Hague, then to Malta followed by the Paris conference and finally in South Africa, Some of these officials have been outside the country for one month. This adds to $12000 in a month of travel allowances exclusive of their monthly salaries.
For the whole month, the wages of these officials lack use since their food and other personal needs have been catered for by the state. Despite this evidenced by the ailing economy and the endless lamentation from the key productive players in the tight economy, the institution has turned a deaf ear to this in the name of marketing the country’s economy.
The recent implementation of exercise duty from an act of parliament which the CS described as a means of cutting down on lifestyle problems, it is evident that life of the poor ordinary citizen is going to continue ailing and his tear glands should be set to shed more tears. No economy does not rely on the oil industry, imposing a tax on this product translates to the taxation of every service in a country.
Based on the reports from the same government, the presidency has already hit the recurrent budget estimate for travel and hospitality. There have been so far no any reasonable efforts to cut on this expenditure or reduce the effects of the continuously dwindling economy. Kenyans are therefore left wondering and asking the following questions;

1. Why can’t the presidency work on the mechanism of cutting on the delegation that accompanies any out of the country’s travel?
2. As much as it can be justified, what is the essence of huge travel allowances when food and bed are catered for the delegation?
3. Aren’t the several cabinet secretaries able to be delegated with some of these duties and president remaining at home to carry some duties?
4. Are all these trips necessary by the way?

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A REFLECTION ABOUT MY FRIENDS;

As I have continued to grow and climb the ladder from one level to another, I have come across people who have planted a particular seed in my life. From my religious life to political life, academic life to social life, I have met several groups of people whose perspective and understanding of life has always imparted a particular watermark that remains engraved in me as we part ways with them.

Based on so many categories, today let share with you some of these traits based on attitude towards costs. Those who live real life and manage their own financial services will agree with me that life is about costs;

1. I have these friends who whenever I share with them anything I am going to do, the immediate answer is usually, "Aluora you will make it." They demonstrate a certain threshold of confidence in my capability that they always believe it is achievable. I always march ahead and go to face the situation. These are the friends I always go back to request for further support whenever am out of ideas in seeing my goal go through. Most of these friends will attest that whenever I tell them I am going to do anything, they are always prepared that I will be back.

2. The second category is friends whom whenever I tell them I am going to do so and so, the next question is usually, "How much will it cost?" This is a category of friends who do not judge the results of the project first. They value it in reference to expenditure. They will end up cautioning me to ensure I have enough money. They even go ahead to warn me not to return. These friends are so good that I always tell them even when I want to kill an ant.

3. The third category is these friends whenever I share with them what I wish to do, the next answer is a response in the form of a question, "And where will you get all that money from?" Yes, they value the cash, they may appreciate the value of the end results, but these friends are so pessimistic about my poor state that they are sure I cannot make a single step in life. They are always scared that they may have to spend on me. I love these friends, and I always report to them results of the project at the finishing stage. Telling them before commencing your project will demoralize you then finally fail.

But note one thing, I hate none of these friends, I love them all. They help in shaping my wisdom in one way or another and contribute to continued success. They are all a source of motivation.

Eventually, I count all of them among my friends.

Thank you for being a friend.

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In tough English Okiya Omtata Okoiti Hits hard at Uhuru over the Euro bond Stalemate

The famous activitist and champion of leadership integrity has written to key government officials in a rather what I will call harsh-polite tone demanding for some pertinent answers concerning the much disputed and defended Euro bond. Based on Okiya's interpretation and his counterpart, the Euro bond does not qualify to be a strate debt but a personal debt accrued by those incharge of the regime. He has given them a four day ultimatum within which the addrssed parties should provide detail access to the requested information or battle in a constitutional court.

Omtata states in the letter he is willing to pay for any charges that may arise from obtaining the requested information if it means so. Find the detailed first hand letter as jotted by the duo below;

We are citizens of the Republic of Kenya, and in this letter, we address you, with utmost respect, in your capacities, both collectively and individually, as agents of the Government of Kenya with a fiduciary duty to uphold the rule of law.
At the very onset, we categorically clarify that we humbly write this letter to your eminent persons to make a genuine demand anchored in law, in good faith and in the public interest, and not to cock a snook at the authorities of the aforesaid Republic.
We make the said request in relation to the unpleasant reality that, taken collectively, the communication reaching us, at times conflicting but always economising on the truth, mainly through the mass media, from various government offices on the above subject matter, amounts to terminological inexactitude.

We reasonably suspect that the money, which, at the time the Eurobond was floated, the Government said was ostensibly borrowed to pay off a demanding commercial loan and to finance big infrastructure projects, could have been channelled elsewhere and used against the Republic’s public policy and without consideration for the public interest.
Over the decades, runaway public debt has impoverished our country. The high cost of servicing it has taken scarce money away from development projects and vital services such as our struggling healthcare and education sectors. Hence, Kenyans should only pay back what was legitimately borrowed to benefit them.
In international law, odious debt, also known as illegitimate debt, is a legal theory that holds that the national debt incurred by a regime for purposes that do not serve the best interests of the nation, should not be enforceable. Such debts are, thus, considered by this doctrine to be personal debts of the regime that incurred them and not debts of the state. In some respects, the concept is analogous to the invalidity of contracts signed under coercion[1].
Under the rights and fundamental freedoms provided in Articles 24, 35, and 46(1)(a)&(3) as read with Articles 1, 2, 3, 4(2), 10, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 33(1)(a), 40(2)&(3), 43, 47, 50(1), 73, 75, 159, 165(3), 232, 249, 251, 258, 259, and others of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010, we humbly but urgently request that you clear the air by providing hard evidence to support the Government’s publicly stated position that the Eurobond benefitted the people of Kenya.
Fiduciary duty imposed upon you and your offices by the very prescriptive Constitution of Kenya 2010, the Public Finance Management Act ( No. 18 of 2012), the various statutes, rules and regulations governing your offices, public policy of the aforesaid Republic, international best practice, the interests of Justice, and the legitimate expectation of Kenyans require that you provide the following information:
1. A comprehensive brief on the Eurobond process, including the exact amount of money that was raised;
2. Bank statements for all bank transactions providing evidence that the Central Bank of Kenya actually received the Eurobond;
3. Bank statements for all bank transactions providing evidence that the Central Bank actually transferred the Eurobond funds to the various ministries, departments, and agencies of the Government of Kenya;
4. Development (not recurrent) budgets of each ministry, department, or agency of the Government of Kenya which received the money;
5. A breakdown of specific projects which benefitted from the Eurobond money;
6. Bank statements showing, where applicable, that the Central Bank used the Eurobond to pay loans;
7. Evidence that the Eurobond money was budgeted for by Parliament;
8. Evidence that the Eurobond money was spent with the approval of the Controller of Budget of the Republic of Kenya.
It goes without saying that, where the state and its agencies and/or a person holds information whose release and publication would benefit the public; a public interest is created which trumps the privacy of the person or the confidentiality of the information.
The information we seek, which is in your possession, is necessary for the exercise and/or protection of our constitutional rights and fundamental freedoms, and those of other Kenyans, subject to the mandate of your office. The information is also necessary for protecting Articles 4(2), 10, 47, 73, 75, and 232 of the Constitution.
In the present situation, the public interest in obtaining and publishing the information requested arises from the fact that your offices have an obligation under the Constitution and other laws to ensure compliance with the Constitution and other laws of the Republic of Kenya in the running of public affairs.
We hope that you will honour our access to information request, as well as the letter and spirit of the Constitution, and avail to us, and to the Kenyan public, the information requested.
We undertake to settle any reasonable copying charges for any information for which copies are required.
I therefore request that you provide the said information to us within the next four days of receipt of this notice.
You may call or email us at our personal contacts given below, or have the same delivered to our office whose address is Room 4, Floor B1, Block A, Western Wing, NSSF Building, Bishops Road, P. O. Box 60286 – 00200, NAIROBI.
Kindly, note that failure to supply the information as requested will necessitate recourse to the Constitutional Court for the following:
(i) Orders to access to the requested information;
(ii) A declaration that the Eurobond is an odious debt, not a sovereign debt, which benefitted a clique in power not the Kenyan public, and which, therefore, must not be paid by the Kenyan taxpayers but by those in charge of the regime.
Yours faithfully,
Okiya Omtata Okoiti and Nyakina Whycliffe  Gisebe.

NEGLECTED JUSTICE FOR POOR KENYAN CHILDREN IN NATIONAL EXAMS.

There is more than enough evidence that any Kenyan would need to justify the truth that the ongoing KCSE exams has been massively rigged. In previous years, The reports from media houses used to come out later after the media had proven with exam papers if theirs were real or not. This used to create a gap where we could give the media a benefit of doubt on whether they were just playing a PR strategy or truly had the papers before the exam was done.

This year things have been different and the media houses have constantly brought out copies of exam before the papers are sat and informed Kenyans that they have exams. These copies have then been compared with real exam papers ascertaining that they are truly duplicates of the exam. From investigative series from different media houses, these papers are sold to students/parents who can part away with between ksh. 1500-3500 per paper. Calculating on a standard requirement of 21 papers for KCSE this translates to around Ksh. 20000 for the whole exam.

It is apparent that for these exam papers to get to the merchants and pass on to the students they originate from the close KNEC officials, employees and exam supervisors who either dilly dally on their duties or simply neglect their code of conduct.

Given that it is the very exam that will be used for university admission and shaping people's future, there is a group of students whose justice is not being done to them. This is the group of people who cannot afford to pay for the "Stolen exams."

A young boy in Mathayos in western Kenya, or in Mwashuma village in Taita goes for his morning exam possibly without a breakfast. This is a person who cannot access wats app and consequently relies on his handwork and intensive studying to pass the exam.

A son of a middle class parent in Muthaiga Nairobi or Action estate in Eldoret can confidently access his private WATS app and get these papers. Come February/March, these two people will be subjected to same admission criteria to university education. This is Injustice. Simply neglected service of justice.

With sobriety we request the government to own up this mess, motivate the teachers and recruit people with integrity to take care of the exams before we mold a society without moral. It is injustice for few students to access exams before exams and relax while others strive to work hard to pass the same exam.

This is our call for Justice.
A voice on Neglected Justice:Neglected justice is injustice

Give Tachers a A Reason to Listen to you; The will....

It is a culture that towards the end of a week I pour here my mind to get sorber minds tell me what they think and help understand the Kenyan situation. Today it is my wish that I get atleast five minutes of the Jubilee's duo H.E. Uhuru Kenyatta​ and a good friend as well as role model William Samoei Ruto​ on the matters pertaining the long teachers strike that on this morning marks the beginning of a second month in Strike.

It is probably a historic incident that has happened in 2015 with the teachers having stopped their strike in January 2015 for the better option of a court proceeding that was to determine the constitutionality of their demands. The case was presented when SRC was in place and the TSC was fully aware of the constitutional requirements for the wage management of this country. Good analysts like Zack Kinuthia​ Boniface Mwangi​ and others will attest to the process that has lasted for over half a year that finally saw a ruling in favour of teachers.

What grasps my attention here is not the fact that teachers were awarded a 50-60% salary increment, I am currently focussed on how the judge reached on a conclusion to award the teachers this amount. During the battle that is currently before the supreme court, the Kenya's attorney general Prof. Githu Muigai argued about the constitutionality of the judge in awarding the teachers the pay increment during his ruling. As the chief legal advisor to the government, this left me with numerous questions if at all TSC was aware of Attorney's presence in this country when they moved to court in January.

According to the arguements presented by the teacher's barristers, it is true that in January teachers wanted a 300% salary increment which we all agree is vague and economically a joke. The court process saw TSC engage in financial calculations and making submissions which indicated that the only sustainable increment government could offer was 50-60% increment. Legal minds like Otieno Arnold​ Okudo Arnold​ Lone Felix​ and Mutula Jr. will agree with me that a sitting judge relies on the presented facts and figures in making any judgement for the determination to be fair. The relying of the judge on the presented evidence by the accused and the complainant is usually independent of the judge's knowledge, view or opinion as pertaining the matter.

Based on this, the judge used the determined figures presented by the complainant, in this case TSC to award the teachers the increment which actually they did not challenge but agreed despite having demanded for 300% increment before. the numbers were economically hypothetical to any rational economist or any brain that passed through a lesson on introduction to economics.  If this judge was to be asked in his own independent opinion without having to serve as the judge I am convinced beyond any reasonable doubt that he would not support a 50-60% salary increment.

What Are the Consequences?

With all of us aware of the constitutionality of SRC, the awarding of the teachers a 50-60% salary increment would mean that all salaries of civil servants be harmonized. Taking an example of the president alone, this would mean at the end of the 5 years he would have a salary of approximately 3million as a result of the harmonization.
It is apparent that all Kenyans from all walks of life understand the effect of this only that they are trying to assume for political reasons. The economic impact would be an economic sabotage whose effects will be long lasting and probably irreparable.

What should Uhuru Do?
Solution to the stalemate is not for the president to keep quiet and assume all is well. Neither is it to talk tough and intimidate Kenyans. If there is something that should have happened by now is total overhaul of the TSC and replacement by a competent commission. The firm that was consulted for legal advice as well as economic determination of the 50-60% should as well be considered for punishment. The government was misled.

I consider teachers as one of the learned fellows of society who are underestimated. A teacher molds a lawyer, a doctor, an engineer and most of the heard professionals of this country. Engage these group of professionals on a table of talks and inject the truth into their heads and I believe they will listen. They will understand why the 50-60% is not sustainable and the need for review of their demands.

As I finish, let us appreciate that education is a constitutional right that we gave to ourselves by a vote on the new constitution which should not be watered down. Employing teachers on contract will not solve the problem, neither will sacking the teachers help since the court order is still in force.
This is justice that should be given out lawfully to our children.

God bless Kenya!

A voice on the Neglected Justice; OKOTI Aluora Patrick​

EVIDENCE THAT OPPOSITION NEVER LEARNS FROM THE PAST

since the election of the current government in 2013 I would say this must have been the most embarrassing regime for the opposition yet hard to learn for its failures. There have been several occasions where we have seen the opposition help us shout but at last when sense is injected in our skulls we go dump. the motive behind their immature whistle blowing has least been perceived and appreciated as far as the current state of the nation is. As a liberal citizen, I have always been fast to express my minds as per matters pertaining the lives of Kenyans especially in opposing what I think the government is going wrong.

Let Us Reason Together!

Just to consider the past 12 months of the Kenyan political arena in relation to opposition, the moves and all demands that have arisen from that side none has come to maturity. The historical call for dialogue which I strongly supported has entered the history archives of this country and am not sure if the next political generation will remember it. It is evident that the Jubilee coalition is headed to exit from power and seek fresh mandate from electorate without having the so called dialogue.

The Dialogue calls were later followed by the Okoa Kenya campaign which we can all see it has terribly failed. Or may be it will be another relevant subject when the Jubilee gets re-elected in 2017. The Okoa Kenya campaign was headed to fail characterized by how the movement was headed and the leaders at the peak of the campaign.

To cut the long story short, remember the early call to impeach the sitting speaker of the National assembly  this year. This was one procedure whose movement was thwarted even before it reached the incubation if it were a science procedure. The failure was like a double edged sword for opposition being a clear communication to the opposition that when it comes to political prowess, people don't reason but wait to be driven. Jubilee legislators were driven and ran away from reasoning to implementing what would favour their pride.

CURRENT STATE
The process initiated today to impeach the sitting president and the loved Uhuru Kenyatta AKA Kamwana is a move whose initiators failed to consult his or her utmost cerebral cellular composition before bringing it to public. From the opposition side, I would like to pressurize Uhuru to listen to teachers by all means but by not threatening to impeach him. That is waste of time, energy and immaturity of the highest order. This is not rocket science but even the youngest boy in Ekambuli village in Luanda knows opposition cannot impeach Uhuru.

It is with kind regards that I request all colleagues in opposition to come, we sit down and reason, to get Kenya moving forward while strategising on how to win 2022 elections.

God bless Kenya and all her resources..
Lots of Love

PUT ASIDE GREED AND SELFISHNESS AND SUPPORT KENYA GOVERNMENT WHERE NECESSARY...

It is emerging that we live in a society characterized by greed, mediocrity and economic ignorance despite the high level of education that most of the society members seek. It is evident that the society has forgotten to embrace rational thinking and sound judgement in calling for society involvement in administration and sharing of the national cake. The society is continuously getting obsessed with quantity while forgetting the need for Quality.

Transition of Economic Sabotage
 Let us recall the KANU regime when the prices of goods ranged within one hundred shillings for a month's budget. The economic times favored even the least earning citizens of this country only that it was hard to quantify the value. The 97/2002 Vs 2002/2007 transition phase accounted for much of the current financial independence and greed we are experiencing. However, economists will appreciate the government for being smart enough to mop out the much money injected in public in a silent manner while eating into her people.
Kenyans are still adamant with these changes while appreciating little on the effect that these salary increments have caused to the whole society. It is apparent that the value of goods beginning from salt to land has increased relatively in a proportion of 75% to the salary and remunerations growth.
My attention is drawn to the current call by the teachers for a 50-60% salary increment. From 1999, the teachers have been given salary increments in range of 10-12%. These increments have been proportional to other professionals in relation to working environment, academic qualifications and professional requirements. We all appreciate that the teachers and indeed all professionals in this country need salary increment, but 50-60% salary increment is unrealistic.
At one point all of us when in college we learn some bit of economics of a country and monetary balances. It does not need rocket science, economics specialization or commerce studies to understand that too much money in circulation causes trade imbalance and inflation. Kenya is currently battling with the weak shilling which is evident to be driven by market forces other than government regulation.

Hidden Truths...

There are few things that Sossion and Okello are not telling the sympathetic public. Let us answer these questions;
1. To which year do the two unions want the salaries increment backdated to?
2. Why should teachers in Job group R, earn more than civil servants in job group S in basic pay?
3. What proportion of the current wage bill do the teachers consume?
It is uncouth, greed and gimmick for teachers to compare their salaries with those of MPs, MCAs, Senators e.t.c. If they have any good will to for this country the best way is to put pressure on those with huge salaries cut their pay and not demand for increment. I know I will hurt some of you but I call upon all citizens of good will to be prudent and realistic in demands they make. The future shall haunt us. uhuru Kenyatta is going to retire soon, Ruto will leave executive soon, but civil service will remain in force forever.
Kenyans let's us embrace values of patriotism for our Country.
God bless Kenya.

MUMO MATEMU RESIGNS; THE POWER OF CORRUPTION AND THE CORRUPT.

I must start by noting that as much as historians’ document human race to be evolving continually, the evolution of the Kenyan society is very fast that the turn of another phase occurs just before the previous phase is over. Kenyans are however masked with a cocoon of what I will term as ignorant and rhetorically resistant attitude as well as vision towards these unnecessary evolutions. Interesting is in the direction in which these evolutions are moving the country to. 

Kenya is a country endowed with many privileges though even a young kid knows that these privileges only exist in books, journals and presentation in special forums, conferences and any other presumed special sittings. Kenya is accelerated towards the ditch by her own leaders and entrusted political machineries who cannot actually revert back erroneous intentional decisions they make because these are selfish motivated and with ill interests.

It is merely less than 60 days since the president of the republic of Kenya presented what has come to be known as "List of Shame" to the parliament house. This of course was followed by a prediction of a war that had just been stirred and left to bomb the state. Analysts gave all the perspectives of the matter but I know few people, if at all any really paid attention to these forecasts. We all remember Irene Keino narrating how she had been threatened to resigned and even promised another lucrative appointment. These allegations were given by a confident Keino and aired to the whole world. However, these claims were treated as mere politics and as we talk to date the following have never been pursued so as to justify or annul as whether the complainant sought to establish herself as a sacred sheep or if the stated sentiments were of a complainant delivering what the intimidator had really presented.

Little attention was paid to establishing who actually could have made the promise, where the promise was made, what was the motive of the promise, and how did it come to this level. Today the 12th May 2015 Mumo Matemu resigned citing personal reasons which am sure may not be disclosed to any one in any time soon. Matemu goes home after breaking partially a shell that no any former chairman of the Ethics and Anti corruption Commission has ever even tried to hit before. Starting from the days of Ringera, to the verbal chairman PLO Lumumba, EACC was a commission known to threaten the perpetrators of corruption introducing the phrases "Big fish" and "Small Fish" in the Kenya arena of political address.

Matemu will be credited for having been one of whose regime was characterized by numerous legal challenges and battles at the Integrity centre but at least one who flipped through the pages that Kenyans once longed to see open for long. He may not have opened to where it was expected, but the courage, zeal and the determination that Matemu demonstrated to that far would have never been seen in this country if we were still to live our past. The longevity of his tenure at the helm of this fierce commission was ruled short the moment H.E. Uhuru surrendered the list to the House of both learned and defenders of Justice and perpetrators of injustice.

The helms have been cut even shorter because Matemu may never be a happy man to enjoy that vision he once had of seeing a corrupt free country. All prosecutions if any will be done are going to be when this man is out of office. I will draw your attention to what happened at the ICC when Ocampo Louis investigated the 2007-2008 PEV and handed the prosecution to Fatou Bensouda. This is the scenario with the so called "List of Shame".  Analysis will show you the memory of the "List of Shame" should start flickering in minds of Kenyans now as pertaining the "List of Shame". 

It can be deciphered by any creature with cerebral as well as medulla coordination that this resignation has come at such a time when it was least supposed to happen. This gives you the possible reasons for the occurrence of this resignation. This resignation could have been prompted either in favor of the prevailing circumstances or against the wish of Matemu actually. We are yet to decipher, but as Kenyans it is time we all joined in forces of prayer and faith and liberated ourselves from the shackles we have handcuffed ourselves with. Our leaders will continue to sabotage our boundaries of freedom allocated to us by nature. 

As I end this article I would like you to think about this, "After resignation, Kazungu Kambi is still earning his full salary." 

SCRAPE THE 47 COUNTY WOMEN REPS! WHY KENYANS SHOULD NOT EVEN THINK OF 20 WOMEN REPS.

I consider it appropriate time to poke my nose in the highly talk of, what I will call us, parochial women representation. The war of words and bitter phrases has rocked the media houses giving journalists and bloggers sweet titles to write about. This has prompted even house politicians to become columnists just to help drive home their thoughts as independent Kenyans.

The scene created reminds me of a pregnant company I once worked for in my earlier days of employment in the informal sectors. It was a sole proprietorship kind of business so the proprietor had the final decision. This guy lacked enough managerial skills. He therefore didn't have a clear plan for appraisal. Whenever he could suspect his foreman he could create an office for another performing staff without a clear job description. This had an implication on his company and created a cold conflict amongst his staff. At one point you would find all staff on duty to bosses and a complicated command order would ensue creating a web of confusion among the staff.

I remember a close friend rising through the ranks within months to a rank that lacked title but resuming 90% of duties of the foreman who was still retaining his initial capacity. The running costs went high, what followed next is history.

I write this as my opinion and I would like to share with you that in line with Article 34 of the constitution that entitles me like any other Kenyan to the right of Opinion hence not representing the view of any particular group or any other individual. I would like we get to the chronicles of the constitution review, implementation to the time when the 2013 general elections under the newly promulgated constitution as it was by then. The country was brought to a halt by the wage bill debate that beckoned the attention of media houses, civil groups, government, international community and all contributors who could utter anything by then. Some of the factors that were noted to have increased the wage bill that needed to be tamed were;

• The introduction of the bicameral house.
• Expanded national assembly composition.
• Introduction of more constitutional offices.
• Large county assemblies among other minor factors.

It was here that the country remembered of the effects of constitution implementation and started thinking of taming the large parliament. 

A section of members of Women parliamentarians association argue that after Kenyans voting in for the constitution they should be ready for the costs of implementation. It is here that we realize that Kenya does not have 42 tribes as claimed by most naive Kenyans; Kenya has two tribes, the rich and the poor. The same association sensationally stated that all they wanted was the support of President Uhuru Kenyatta, Deputy President William Ruto and The Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga. These group of parliamentarians do not want the support of Kenyans in order to pass laws that will deprive them salaries, Kenyans are only necessary when climbing the ladder to where the same Kenyans can be manipulated.

This is contempt of the highest order on Kenyans who go on hungry stomachs in the name of tax payment for the same MPs. Kenyan leaders never fail to entertain. If there was any legality in this issue it is in my opinion that the women parliaments would seek help of their employers who happen to be Kenyans.

Why I don't Support the proposed 94 women reps?

Going by the proposal of the Women Parliamentarians association that each county elects two women reps, the Impasse of women representation would still not be achieved. In short, continued existence of Article 97(i)-b, c of our constitution with editing of the numbers alone does not solve the stalemate. Instead, this would even worsen the situation further adding more state officers. My lose scrutiny reveals that the current capacity of the national assembly after renovation going by the number of the seats available can only be 349 members. This can be seen from times when there is usually a joint sitting such as the one held on 27th April 2015 during the President's state address. These seats will therefore need further expansion in case the   doubling of numbers of women sails through.

Now, let us reason, assume elections were held today when we are having the 290 constituencies and 100 women’s seats. This would automatically translate to 384 elective posts. But we can all do simple math and see that in the event all the 290 slots only men are elected, the 94 will not amount to 1/3. Even going by the current statitistics, there are only 16 women MPs out of the elected 290. If by any chance we are to do our math, we would have 110 elected women in a parliament having approximately 434 seats. This still will not be enough. This therefore means we shall need a parliament of up to 440 seats in order to fulfill this law with so many vague political nominations. This of the offices for these enlarged houses, staff in their offices, their security and of course car grants. Is it economic friendly?

The way forward;

Kenya cannot afford to assume this law because it already exists. Implementation is inevitable. It is after this critical analysis that I think of Speaker Justin Muturi's proposal not in his capacity as it is in Article 22 of the constitution but as a common Kenyan and fall for it. Scrapping of the 47 county women rep seats will do more service to this country and even to the children that those women gave birth to. This will guarantee that always there will be balanced representation in the house with little tussle of the interests among leaders. Establishment of the 100 affirmative seats in a house of 300 members will see the women number always at 1/3 of the total house constitution math that even a single elementary school child can do for you.

The costs of running the parliament will narrow down as well and the country wage bill will be tamed.  Even if we had 1000 women reps without clear description of their duties, it will remain irrelevant.

As I finish, I would like to send you as an emissary, Post here for me two things that your Women rep has done that never happened before she went to office?

God bless Uhuru Kenyatta, and May God Bless Kenya!