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18to land, like here in Western Province, most of us who are men you find that at least if you have two acres of land andjust 8 girls, we can continue marrying several wives and keep trying to have a son who will inherit that piece of land. Allthe children should have a right to inherit the land boys and girls.9. On other Commissions, Constitutional Commissions, I want to say that the office of the ombudsman is long overdue inthis country, we should have a system where complaints even against the government are properly channeled so thatthey are addressed on behalf of the wananchi. I am for other Commission like anti-corruption which should beautonomous, of course the Electoral Commission which should be impartial, and supervise all the elections. We wantthe human rights commission to work as a watchdog to ensure that not even the government is violating the rights, thehuman rights of our citizens.10. Very few of us are talking about succession, I mean trust of powers because from Independence we have been used toan immortal head of state but I want to say our Constitution should impress these, that immediately Parliament isdissolved, the speaker of the National Assembly together with the office of the Attorney General should be incharge ofthe government, so that we have a level playing field for all the people. What we see today is that somebody theydissolve Parliament, others have gone and somebody remains impossession of the same powers and using thosepowers to manipulate his way and those his is cronies is back to power. The same Constitution should also provide forthe security of the social welfare of a head of state or a Prime Minister who has served this country, but it should bewithin the limits or the ability of the economy of this country, what we are reading in papers the (inaudible) but I think itis very disheartening. I think that a retired officer given 80% like the head of state and a bit of security should beadequate for him to stay until he dies and we bury him. The last one I wanted this Controller and Auditor General,these officers should be maintained in the Constitution and be given the powers to prosecute, they come with very goodrecommendations and they just die, and very finally I want to pray that the recommendations of this Commission, will beaddressed and they should not die somewhere on the way, like many others in this country. Thank you.Com.Kangu: Now you talked about proportional representation so that population is looked into about how many peoplewould you want to have per Constituency?Godfrey: I will personally propose that, a Constituency of about 50,000 people is adequate enough for one MP.Com.Kangu: I do not know whether you have also considered the circumstances in which people live you know the firstperson telling us about the population being the only factor but we have been in other places where people are telling us no youshould look at the vastness of the place, the terraine in the place, indeed we have seen it in some places if you said 50,000people you might be talking of a Constituency that is bigger than Western Kenya if you go say to Turkana District is the largestDistrict in the country with 77,000 square kilometers, I do not know miles but with only three Constituencies. I do not knowwhether you have thought about it.