Atwoli faults BBI saying it does not address the real concerns
By Dickson Odhiambo
November 28, 2019
Atwoli faults BBI
saying it does not address the real concerns
CENTRAL Organization of Trade Unions General Secretary
Francis Atwoli has faulted the Building Bridges Initiative Report that was
officially launched yesterday saying it does not address the concern of the
common citizens.
Atwoli says the report which has a proposal of a Prime
Minister that will be appointed by the President and may be dismissed is not
the right thing for Kenyans.
Addressing the media today at Tom Mboya Labour College
during a meeting on Social Dialogue Project, the Cotu Boss said there should be
a powerful Prime Minister who is not an appointee of the President.
Atwoli says the Report should have also provided for the
position of two Deputy Prime Minister and two deputy President, adding this may
help in addressing the issue of Gender parity.
Atwoli says there should be a constitution that helps in
bringing peace when it is all inclusive.
The cotu boss the current BBI report only replaces the
position of the Leader of Majority in the Government with that of a less
powerful Prime Minister who will be appointed by the President.
“If the current report is implemented the way it is, people
will fight because the report has only replaced the position of the leader of
Majority with an appointed prime minister who can be equally be sacked at any
time by the appointing authority who is the president,” Atwoli says.
Atwoli says that the proposed prime minister post is not
constitutional one, adding that all the powers will be trenched to the
President hence everyone would want to become the President of the Republic.
Atwoli proposes that there should be a Parliamentary system
of Government, adding that this will help in bringing distribution of
authority.
“If we want to address gender, we must have two Deputy
Presidents where one is a male and the other is a female. We also need to have
two Deputy Prime Ministers a male and a female,” Atwoli adds.
Atwoli says senior Positions like that of the Chief
Secretary should also be put in the report, adding that this will be filled by
someone who was in opposition.
He says all over the world, positions in the constitution
are created with people who will be filling such positions in mind.
He says a powerful president without a Parliamentary system
of Government won’t be a good thing for the country at all.
The Cotu General Secretary’s remarks comes barely a day
after both President Uhuru Kenyatta and Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga
yesterday launched the Building Bridges Initiative Report at the Bomas of
Kenya.
Among the proposal in the Report include the President
appointing Prime Minister who will a Member of Parliament.
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