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parliamentary nomination. To caution them from the disadvantages they get from the electro process we have. May be is not
that have I completed but because I am handling it in you willread it.
Com. Ibrahim Lethome We will read it thoroughly and we will understand the point you have mentioned. Councillor.
Councillor: Okay thank you.
Com. Ibrahim Lethome No question for you councillor. Charles Koine, Nathan Ngatia John, Bondeni Ctholic Church,
are they there. Bondeni Primary School. John Murigi Macharia. Johnstone Muchina, okay please come forward. give us
you names. Speak to the microphone.
Johnstone Gathenge Muchina: My names is Johnstone Gathenge Muchina I am farmer from mwenje. I want to give a
few ideas about the politicians. About the explanation in our republic. The constitute should be made ina manner tht it
should have some sort of . I mean like. The constitution should see the taxation we have in kenya it is so highthat people can
never get their ownfood. If omoan be sold so high that you cannot even buy. After we sell the maize so cheaply. But when
they bring it to the unga, we buyit so expensively because 2kgs of packed unga can be like 40/= and that is 40 x 45 I don’t
know how much it goes, and yousee now that one bag of maize can cost more than 1000 when I am buying. But wheni am
selling it. I will sell at 400/= so the constitution should be put in a manner that to see we farmers to be helped about this
taxations. We produce but we are highly taxed for the goods we produce and we don’t get (inaudible)
About the traditional ethics. We used to have like tradition beers and that kind of , now this system has been changed that
we get local brew from Nairobi. If the constitution can work it better is that we can be allowedc to use our own millets and
mbocho and stuffs that we can make the brews other than them making it Nairobi when they bring the stuffs here for us to
consume.
The forests used to be managed by people employed by the forest department. Today they don’t do it. they are no people
working for the forest. It is only clearing the forests and no planting. That’s why we farmers have been very much affected
because of shortages of rain. For we don’t have forests. And I don’t see how my five acres I will plant. Lets say, like now
we have above 50 tres in your 5 acres. That one will not make food if the main forest is cleared. That is we are not getting
rain. Now this is july. It is supposed to be raining there is no rain because of this forests.
Com. Ibrahim Lethome What do you recommend
Mr. Muchina: I recommend thast the constitutional should be made in a manner that people will be put back to work in
the forests. They should go back to work. They cultivate pieces of land and then palant trees and when those trees are