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restricted to participate irrespective of the management and protection of such resources. The following resources should be
protected by the constitution. i. Forest, water resources and catchment areas, minerals, wildlife, air and land. to manage and
protect such resources. Parliament should by no a permanent commission on environmental protection and the (inaudible)
expert of people disciplines related to environment should street a new commission. Public awareness and participation in
environmental protection should be sufficient, shall be facillated and encounter by making information and environmental
readily available to the population and promoting environmenatal (inaudible)
The other one I would like to present is on the security. As it has been said. That the greatest that one can ever have. Is to
have proper health. On this I would like to say that every Kenyan should be protected in the sense that he should feel
secure. He should feel that every where he owns is protected and he should feel a part and parcel of his own country.
The other onew I would like to represent to you is land and property rights. The government should have the power to
compulsorily acquire foreigners, land for the purposes of the government’s social amenities. Hospitals and schools have got
structure of (inaudible) by the government. this is done (inaudible) compensated adequately and promptly. The states
government or local county should have the power to control the use of land by the owners or the buyers. The government
should claim big chunks of land that have not put in proper use for economic development.
The new constitution should put a seal on land by big gross. This should be in response to the fact that the population is ever
increasing or land remain(inaudible).
Also Kenyans suffers from a great problem with the land tenure system where one can own as much land as possible.
Whether it is put into use or not. It is not appealing that even after close to 40 years of independence down the line, some
people in the country still remain as squatters, as refugees in their country. the constitution should state that those who
require more land can still get if available. But the government should involve many parts per acreage to discourage
possession of idle chunks of land. should have equal acsess of land. on family land ownership the title deed should bear the
names of the two spouses. Land should never be sold without concept of theentire family.
Pre independent land traties and agreement involving several communities should be abolished. Preparations of such duties.
They controversalily divie the people (inaudible) tribal boundaries. This will follow formalities (inaudible) the spirit of
nationalism which we should uphold and strengthen at this particular time. Kenyans should have constitutional right to own
land and settle in any part of thiscountry. And with that I say thank you.
Com. Ibrahim Lethome I have a question. Thank you very much. There are two things you have talked about. First you
were talking about security. What is the point
Mr. Mwangi: The problem is there are attacks by people. this gets the problem because some strangers (inaudible) and