Lawyer welcomes proposal in BBI to restructure the executive

Former President of the East African Law Society James Aggrey Mwamu address Pupils of Okok Primary School in Kisumu County Last Friday after leading a Foundation in donating Covid-19 kits to schools. He has commended the proposal in BBI on expanding the Executive terming it a good one

 By Dickson Odhiambo

November 1, 2020

Lawyer welcomes proposal in BBI to restructure the executive

The proposal in the Building Bridges Initiative report to restructure the executive wing of the National Government is a good one, a Lawyer has said.

Former President of East African Law Society Lawyer James Aggrey Mwamu says the proposal is a good one because it will accommodate more from different communities in Kenya.

Speaking in Kisumu after donation of Covid-19 kits to schools in Kisumu East Sub-County through Mwalimu James Japheth Mwamu Foundation, Mwamu says the current Executive can only accommodate two communities.

Mwamu say Kenya is one of the African countries where a community leader is taken to be speaking for the community.

“When a community leader sits in one of those positions, he or she is taken to represent the community interest and this is likely to go on for a long time may be for another 20 or 30 years but for now it would be important that you have positions that can accommodate as many communities as possible in the,” Mwamu says

Mwamu says the expanded Executive will also ensure that communities who have not benefitted from the Civil Service jobs will also have a chance to be employed since leaders from such communities will now be in the newly-created executive wing of the National Government.

“Communities who have been disenfranchised will never be so because they will be included in the restructured system of Government,” Mwamu says

He says the proposal to creation of the position of Leader of Opposition is also a good one, adding this will offer checks and balances to the serving government.

“The re-creation of the position of Leader of Opposition is a good proposal. It ought not to have been removed and you can imagine the person who becomes number two stays in the cold for five years,” Mwamu adds.

Mwamu at the same time urged political leaders across the country so as to allow members of the public to keenly read and understand the just launched report on Building Bridges Initiative.

He says after the public read and understand the document is when they will be able to make informed opinion on it whether it is a good or a bad document.

President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga last week Launched Building Bridges Initiative report at Bomas of Kenya in Nairobi at an event that a section of politicians poked holes on it with some claiming that the document is only meant to create jobs for e few prominent Kenyans at the expense of million jobless Kenyans.

The expansion of the Executive wing of the National Government has been one of the contentious issue in the report.

Some Political leaders have called for the protection of Senate and not to downgrade it since it is the House that champions the interest of the Devolved system of Government.

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