Deputy President William Ruto found it rough addressing congregates at Bomas of Kenya after they constantly disrupted him during his peach.
During his address, Dr. Ruto was addressing some issues in the report that he felt he disagreed with and needed to be looked into.
Some of the issues the DP wanted to be addressed include the matter of the judiciary where he feels there is a huge gap for the country to have an improvement.
“On the matter of the Judiciary, there is a huge space for us to have an improvement on the proposal that has been made,” Ruto said.
“The Judiciary as per the requirement of the law, there should be a high court in every county. As we talk today there are counties that still do not have a high court,” he added as the crowd booed him.
Ruto said to curb the problem there should be increased funding to the arm of government to enable it to have more courts and higher more judges.
Ruto also had an issue with the recommendation of the appointment of an Ombudsman by the executive into the judiciary “is a derogation from the independence of the judiciary”.
Another issue that the DP had an issue with was a recommendation on the IEBC where the political parties participate in the appointment of commissioners.
“On the matter of IEBC, let me say the recommendation that I have read say that political parties participate in the appointment of the,”
“Let me ask my brother Raila Odinga is good at football.” how fair will be a league where the referee is appointed by teams and not all the teams. How fair will this league be?” the DP posed amind some opposition from the crowd.
He, however, said if he if persuade that “you end up having a fair game” then he will support the report.
“Is you tell me that it’s only some teams to appoint the referee, then I have my reservations and I need to be persuaded like any other Kenyan that if that is the case and it is fair,” he added as the crowd continued with the heckles.
The third issue the DP raised was the independence of the police force.
“The 2010 constitution was very clear that the police must act independently of any politician,” he said
“To recommend that there will be a police council chaired by a CS is actually a derogation from the independence of the police.”
On matters devolution, Ruto concurred with a 35% increase in allocation is progressive and more resources must go to counties
But he noted that “accompanying increase of resources to 35 percent, we must also the senate has the necessary constitutional power to ensure that that resources are available and they are used properly”.
“To recommend that the Senate cannot continue to have the constitutional mandate to discuss the division of revenue is actually a downgrade of the senate,” Ruto said.
Ruto said instead of downgrading the Senate, it should be upgraded to the upper house now that some MPs were being moved to the Senate.
The other issue the deputy seemed to be reserved on was the “winner take all ” and the inclusivity debate.
- President Uhuru Kenyatta Left In Stitches After Lady Encourages Him To Get “Mpango Wa Kando” (Video)
- Baby Pendo’s Mother Emotional Speech At BBI Launch
- Am Ready To Disagree With Ruto On BBI -Oscar Sudi
- Ruto No-Show As Uhuru, Raila Receives BBI Report
“In the proposal, you (Prof Adams Oloo) have said we will have the President, his deputy and they will win the elections and then the President appoints the Prime Minister and the two deputies from the winning coalition and then we will have the runner up being the leader of the opposition. Now (heckles from the crowd).., it doesn’t matter who it is…the question I am asking myself, have we sorted out the winner take all questions”? Ruto asked as the crowd seem to agree that the proposal will solve the issue.
“…. So what happens to the whole Nasa brigade (the opposition)? he continued.
Still, on inclusivity, the DP proposed that as the country discuss inclusivity “around us – the leaders we must have a candid, open discussion on the matter about the millions of Kenyans locked out of poverty and unemployment. We must discuss how they are going to be part of the Kenyans society”.
Related: Ruto Lays Tough Conditions To Support BBI Report
