President Moi said yesterday presidential powers should be reduced "because my successor will not be like me".

At the same time, the President directed police to crack down on drug peddlers in schools.

Addressing public rallies at St Augustine Teachers' College, Ishiara, and at Siakago Town in Mbeere District, President Moi attributed indiscipline in schools to drug abuse and abdication of responsibility by leaders.

On constitutional review, he reiterated his earlier stand that the job be done by Parliament.

"I cannot abdicate my responsibility of defending the Constitution which I took oath to protect. Nobody will stop Kenyans from saying what they want to be included or excluded from the Constitution but we have financial problems to go round soliciting views," he said.

He said it was unfair to let the 25-member review commission spend Sh4.5 billion instead of channelling the money to assist poor Kenyans.

The Head of State asked the Mbeere in Siakago constituency to vote wisely in forthcoming by- election. The immediate former MP Silas Ita died last month.

The President donated Sh500,000 in aid of poor students in the district.

He also said the government will send 1,500 bags of maize to famine stricken families in the district.

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