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!