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Speaking in Kibera, the Prime Minister supported the pure presidential system arrived at during the Naivasha retreat.

He said a pure presidential system will make the president a “real father of the nation” with the whole of Kenya as his constituency.

“The president’s constituency will be the entire country and not some small constituency in a part of the country,” he said, adding that the country was better off with either a pure presidential or parliamentary system as opposed to the current power sharing arrangement, which he described as a “mongrel”.

Mr Odinga said critics who had accused him of backing a parliamentary system so as to take over the country’s leadership through the backdoor were malicious.

And, speaking at Kamukunji Grounds in Nairobi, Central Organisation of Trade Unions (Cotu) secretary-general Francis Atwoli also supported the Naivasha recommendations and asked the experts to incorporate them in the draft constitution.

“Any attempt to mutilate the document that came out of Naivasha talks will be met with equal force from Cotu because what came out of Naivasha met our expectations,” he said.

Anglican Archbishop Eliud Wabukala termed as ‘encouraging’ the outcome of the Naivasha talks, and asked the experts to iron out any outstanding differences.