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20the sugarcane farmers on the ground, that is the basics of this paper.We talked about the Executive and we say qualification specification for a President may not be less as long as the President isnot allowed to be above the law and anybody matter how will be vetted will become corrupt with excessive power. Forinstance the President should have no power to shelf bindings of Commissions of enquiry, unless they are likely to present innational or regional blood shed. The President should not have powers to be dropping views of his intentions in public anddismissing appointees over radio announcements. Appointees should be given room to resign or defect themselves. ThePresident should not have powers to decide which regions should be given, which projects. The President should have powersto create and dictate implementational programmes which have been researched on by professionals. It is this kind ofdirectives, that lead to white Elephants and the sugar industry suffering.Basic rights: The key basic right according to sugarcane farmers should be economic empowerment so that people have gotdefence against their being bought. Leaders in the sugar industry, unlike the tea, coffee, wheat industries they lead farmers withsmall holdings. The other industry mentioned above are mostly owned and let by large scale farmers, they can therefore gangtogether and fight for market of quarters from the government or abroad being themselves influencial Legislatures andExecutive. These being not the case in the sugar industry, the industry needs quarter protection by the Constitution. It is saidthat the British government in 1956 signed a treaty with Egypt to protect the live source of L.Victoria for 999 years, thiseffectively prevents the lake waters to be used for irrigating Kenyan farms. The Constitution should have something to protectthe state against such treaties.Environment and natural resources: Ensuring equitable distribution of natural resources is difficult because they are not evenlydistributed. The Constitution should provide for incentives to express such resources, especially the renewable ones. If youtake the example of rice in Kano plains, Bunyala, these are projects which are either dead or are fast dying. Reclaiming of Yalaswamp and irrigating and possible irrigation of Cane from Lake Victoria, which could easily lead to building of factories,these could be the major incentives we are talking about. The government should control the unrenewable resources such asminerals, but the renewable ones should be controlled by the common mwananchi. The Constitution should enact something toprotect such cash crops from extinction due to liberalization forces. We are slidding back into neo-colonialism this timechampioned by world trade. Environment protection issues to be included in the Constitution should therefore be:1. It should be mandatory to discharge only harmless the influence from dangerous factories which use mineral chemicalssuch as paper processing, motor oil refineries plastics, steel manufacturing. It should be mandatory to conserve soilfrom residual chemicals from sprays and from the mineral fertilizers which normally affect Kenya(inaudible)2. Outlawing burning of vegetation in any form. Burning law materials like humus which is badly needed by sugarcane togrow.3. It should be mandatory to protect against plastic packaging pollution and emission of gases from automobiles andfactories. We find these refuse scattered almost everywhere.4. Protection of natural water ways, from silting by outlawing farming along river banks, you find that we farm until you get