- Nyando MP Jared Okello said no more than 30 per cent of appointments should be given one tribe
- Embakasi East MP Babu Owino demands return of HELB which do not discriminate students between the rich and poor
- Nominated MP Irene Mayaka says high cost of living has resulted to mental health problems and increased criminalities
Azimio la Umoja one Kenya coalition legislators have called for an amendment of the constitution to ensure no more than 30 per cent of appointments in any one organisation goes to any single community
Presenting their grievances at National Assembly on Wednesday 11th October, the MPs led by Nyando lawmaker stated that foundational principles of inclusivity under article 10 of the constitution should apply to all civil service jobs
“We demand audit of all public institutions by an independent agent like Price Water House Coopers and National Cohesion and Integration Commission and report tabled in Parliament of the status of distribution of employment of all cadres by tribe and region and steps taken to rectify this,” Okello remarked
Asked what are some of the recommendations members of parliament may take to stop tribal recruitment, MPs said that will include halting appointments of some employees as well as freezing their bank accounts until the gap is addressed
He particularly raised concerns with the recent recruitment in the Kenya Defence Forces and Kenya Revenue Allocation that has been marred by ethnic cleansing
“You have heard Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua saying that this government belongs to majority of shareholding.
These are some of the things that parliament must stamp its independence to remedy the situation before this country belongs to a few in a detriment of taxpayers,” Okello observed
Embakasi East MP Babu Owino on education equalising all kenyans
Embakasi East Member of Parliament Babu Owino noted that President William Ruto is a beneficiary of Education and he wouldn’t have gone to Chiromo to study botany if he was not funded by the government
He raised issues with the current funding model to the higher education where he said that many of the needy students will end up being discriminated by the current regime
“Out of possible 870 000 student’s onlly 45,000 can be given scholarship, what about the rest 800,000.
What is the tool of measuring needy students in this country?,” Owino questioned
The legislator stated that there are people in the government earning Sh20,000 per month and can’t afford to pay for higher education to their children, and it would be shocking if the government would have classified their parents as well-up
Owino described that university students always needs transport to travel from various villages to different universities but the government has denied them
“We want HELB to be brought back, we don’t want the current model funding which is discriminating the entire population,” he remarked
Mental health and wellness or wellbeing of the Nation
Specially elected Member of Parliament Irene Mayaka observed that the high cost of living has resulted on mental health and wellness
She noted there are a lot of criminal elements in the school institutions because of mental health issues or problems engineered by the government by skyrocketing basic commodities
“An audit and conversation needs to be made alongside addressing other aspects of cost of living on what ails this nation. We must repeal the provision of penal code that criminalized attempted suicide, instead we should address the reason increasing number of young people and adults want to take their lives and address them,” Mayaka said
She observed that nobody has gone out to see why people are going cracy and loosing their loved ones because of the discrimination deliberately created by government