Bungoma County Senator Moses Wetangula speaking to the press in a past interview. [Photo: Soft Kenya]
Ford Kenya party leader and National Super Alliance co-principal Moses Wetangula has proposed amendment of the constitution to pave way for parliamentary system of leadership.
Wetangula hinted that his party was having what he termed as a bipartisan conversation with members of parliament and senators across the divide to put in place strategies that will lead to the scrapping of the Presidential system.
He said the current system is polarizing the country along political and ethnic lines.
Wetangula was speaking at Sentrim Hotel in Naivasha sub-county during the party’s retreat for its governors, senators, and members of parliament on Monday.
“A current audit of the constitution indicated that the executive needed to be restructured. Parliament has been weakened and reduced to a rubber stamp for the executive and was no longer effectively playing its watchdog role,” said Wetangula.
The Senator who was accompanied by Bungoma governor Wycliffe Wangamati, Kisumu West MP John Olago Oluoch, his Tongaren counterpart David Eseli Simiyu and Said Buya Hiribae of Galole said FORD-Kenya will also be reaching out to its partners in NASA to set out programmes aimed at auditing and isolating flaws in the current constitutional dispensation.
Wetangula urged politicians across the political divide to reach out to each other and unite Kenyans.
He said divergent political opinion should be tolerated and not be used to polarize the country.
The senator said irresponsible political rhetoric was shredding the country on ethnic fault lines.