[Garissa Township MP aspirant Farah Maalim. He wants MPs appointed as Cabinet Secretaries to ensure that they are held accountable.] (Photo/Standard.)
Garissa Township Mp aspirant Farah Maalim has promised to push for a constitutional amendment that will see MPs appointed as Cabinet Secretaries to ensure that they are held accountable.
“As its stands the current CS’s are not accountable to anybody. These are some of the shortcomings of the current constitution that we want amended to allow for a more transparent and accountable cabinet. You can’t have a parliament that plays the role of the executive as it is being witnessed currently. It beats all logic of separation of powers,” he noted as quoted by KNA.
Farah a Wiper Party candidate said it was the electorate of Garissa Township Constituency who prevailed upon him to run for the seat.
“Contrary to what my opponents and their supporters are claiming, I was never rejected by my clan to vie for Lagdera seat. It’s the voters of Garissa Township who persuaded me to give the seat a shot,” Farah said.
“The electorate are tired with how politics and business had been transacted for the last 10 years and in me they saw a personality who was not only best suited but capable of unseating the incumbent. Who was I to turn down the will of the people,” he said.
He dismissed claims that he was an outsider and therefore was trying to impose himself on the people of Garissa Township people.
“I was born and brought up in Garissa town. My father was a soldier who resided in Garissa town. If anything it’s the incumbent who was born in the rural Balambala that was part of the larger Dujis Constituency,” Farah added.