My personal take on Chapter 12 of the Harmonised Constitution

Now to my task as a Kenyan. I am not trained in legal matters and what I offer is basically a layman's wish. I have stayed limited to Chapters twelve (Executive) and fourteen (devolution) for now. I have some misgivings about certain matters of language such as:

Article 156 (2) The State President shall exercise the powers and perform the functions of that office on the advice of the Cabinet unless this Constitution states otherwise. Does he SEEK Cabinet advise OR does Cabinet offer such advise without prompting. I think this 'trigger' needs to be put in black and white. For example, the words: Always, constantly, regularly, etc may be juxtaposed somewhere to disambiguate this and help eliminate the Rigera-type scenarios. The president might argue, 'I didn't need the help of the cabinet' on that, and still point to the ambivalence of this loophole. Let us use a toothcomb on the language!

These are my observations and misgivings so far, which I am also sending to the CoE via email.

Presidency: Election and power.

Holidays

Ochamegei boiisiechu (abeere muren booi Boaz). Lagok che koyai tiemuutik ko mie koisto ng'olyoot ne kileen "ke tar sukul". Ma mii chi ne tarei sukul. Agot ane nga kimoori kaineet keleen Dr ko toom aatar sukul. Tarei biich sukul. Ye mwa lakweet anan ko sigiik kole "ki ko tar sukul kip anan ko chep shiancho". Mwaeet ne uu noo ko teechei ng'otweet em kabwotuutik. Ribegei chi marigindoab kabwatuutik.

Em kasari ko mi ole kimuuchi kesooman buch em university. Geer Finland ak Jurumaan. Oli kimuuch kesooman em university em robiisiek che ng'ering. Em Juruman ko Jimbo che mochei chepkondook kemogee lakwa elipu 60 kitio. Oltinweek alak ko ma kimochei chepkoonda.

Kobaate....

Nga mi ng'ony chepkondook che kemochei em Finland, Juruman, Sweden ak agot China, ko magaat keng'alaal kutiitnywa. Ara anyuun lakweet ne ko koit kilas 12 ko nda imuugaksei kowo kolej ne kineeti kutusweechu asi kobiit kiibara kiwotoosiekab sobeet. Nda momi chepkondokab Kolej ko amu nee lagook che mi oltinweek che kimuuchi keyai kandaras kou kap chai anan keebut bandek asi konyoor chepkondook che inetegei kompiuta anan kutuswek che tesei boroinwekab somaneet.

Omwachi lagook konai kole koobek pocket money yo ko itui sandukuutab sukul. Nguno ko yaachei ko am kaootikchiik.

Mie ke kaaman kanetisiet agobo koroi kiguree Ukimwi asi kitigiin ko ma itiaach lagook seseenik ne matinyei aiyo. Mi ting'ong'eet beek oriit, mat siil beek kiholeela.

Sere ak ogat arap Sang ak Cheptabach.

KCC: A historical perspective

In 1990, Egerton University upgraded its Dairy Technology Diploma to a degree course. The BSc Dairy Science & Technology was custom-designed to train 'future KCC managers'. The first batch of the 8-4-4s who had chosen a UoN Food Science found ourselves at Egerton. We were 26 in number. I was the only one from the RVP. In 1992, May to be precise, then Minister for Co-operatives, the late Kamwithi Munyi, ammended the Act that had hitherto given KCC a monopoly. The Kenya Dairy Board lost its teeth. Imports of dairy products came in, including products with radioactive material, that Ukrainian milk powder contaminated by the Chernobyl Nuclear disaster of Apr 1986.

Among the loosers were the farmers, who, without knowing also contributed to the demise of KCC. I wrote my term paper on this liberalisation and its impact on KCC and farmer payments. I am sorry that I cannot locate the hard copy at the moment. However, apart from a free-for-all- importation of cheap and subsidised milk and milk products, farmers were doing what they continue to do. In the morning, they'd supply milk to KCC, but either due to lack of knowledge or merely because they were trying to make a kill, they took their midday and evening milk on bicycle to Eldoret. They were selling full fat raw milk to the same target consumer to whom KCC was meant to sell processed milk, The farmer's milk was costing half the prize of the processed milk from KCC. This hawking was allowed because Munyi's amendment made 'hawking' of milk legal. For with it, the Kenya Dairy Board (KDB) could not impound any unprocessed milk.