You're not getting it - EXECUTIVE PM ala Teresa Mary May or Angela Dorothea Merkel. Minus all the pompous assent or veto laws, C-in-C, head of state, portraits, guard of honor, swords & instruments of power, etc ceremonies. Those you give to the powerless PORK whose term cut across MPs' terms. Kalonzo or Madvd or Aukot would be very happy to be Queen to swear PM's, JSC's or PSC's appointees or be on portraits in dukas & kiosks.
The sweaty Party Leader job leave for Ruto and Babu. Real piliticians. Point being - the glamor is half the appeal. All folks swear by and respect the Queen - including the PM. If coalition collapse - new coalition leader present their numbers to the Queen, who also open parliament with cabarets and gendarmes and chariots and shiny knights. Queen dissolve parliament if no majority coalition is possible.
Once PM become a JOB - no immunity, MPs Q&A, Odunga subpoenas, impeachable by majority - Uhuru and other indolent characters will drop the ambition pronto. The man or woman running the country must be accessible and accountable - which is what most democracies have done. You can be fired for insulting or disrespecting Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. While you can insult Teresa May with no consequence unless she sue you personally. Bibi Netanyahu and his wife juggle graft trial in between cabinet sessions and Likud Q&A. The wife had to refund cash she used to throw non-state bash in the official PM residence. In Kenya you can't call out Uhuru for anything - you must baptize him Jezebel Kibicho ? - lest the skies should part.
One Exec but defrocked, demystified PM. Hii ujinga ya 3tier or hybrid - NARA - we don't need nor want.
Sounds good. The problem is we still want to have a president - acting like the British queen or king -without that restraint - in corrupt, inept Negroland. That president will be elected via universal suffrage - and will render the PM - not better than Duale - who is in parliament every day explaining to our DOVISH MPS the why, what, when. The reality is our MPs will come from the majority party - and all the hawkish opposition noise will be ignored - as makelele ya chura which doesn't stop the cow from drinking water.
The current constitution has no major issues. The issues the way I see is lack of independence by bodies made independent (Police or Judiciary) - and a few idiosyncrasies like senate that isn't an upper floor.
The 14 or 8 provinces won't work - our tribal nation is 44 tribes. Counties at 47 tribes work best. You do not just pick any number. Our 47 counties largely reflect our tribal tapestry. The number & the borders are not arbitrary but follow tribal borders and reflect our tribal nation identity. We have a few cases that hopefully will be sorted during next year boundary reviews...I mean Kuria should be patched with Gusii...and part of Gusii given to Nyamira. Sabots in Mt Elgon should join TransNzoia. Parts of Kakamega should be given to Vihiga. Tiaty in Baringo should join West Pokot. Also remove the Njemps to Samburu or Laikipia. Isiolo and Marsabit should be fixed to stop tribal wars btw Borana's and others. Our counties should be tribal nations. That way nobody will see a lot of injustice....and tribal issues at the county level will disappear. We can deal with tribalism at the national level....that is halving the problem.
I also find the term limit on governorship really idiotic. That need to be removed...rather than trying to find them bigger areas.
Finally, we had all these long debates - with BOMAS - WITH COE - with public submission - with PSC ironing out few issues - and they were debated to death.
Constitution doesn't need an overhaul. It needs retouching here and there.
RSA is semi-presidential - cause PORSA is not summonable by MPs and has immunity, bla bla. Not good for corrupt, inept negro. The Zuma error tells it all. UK- or German style - they spend 2 days a week explaining to hawkish MPs why, when, what, who. No portraits, "father of the nation", gun salutes at the airport and such crap.
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