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26every year we are misusing close two hundred million and then we are telling the teachers we cannot increase their pay with 21billion. We are telling the nurses and the doctors we cannot pay them, may l also with your permission just add one note. Therights of workers must be protected in the Constitution. We have seen brutality by the government sacking of the workers,taking them to court, abusing the legal process to intimidate them. We want the rights of collective industrial action to beentrenched in the Constitution and for us who have industrial not industrial, Constitutional Court that can solve these disputes.The government is made of individuals they are not always right l have a very firm believe that the government is mistreating theworks. Thank you.Com. Dr. Maranga: There is one more question. If you say something about distributing of the land. How much does Kenyanhold?Honourable Martha Karua: For those in large-scale farming, l didn’t want to give a ceiling because l am not anagriculturalist, but l think about a thousand acres should be the ceiling. I know of people with thirteen thousand acres, twentythousand which they never bought. They were issued with title deeds by the Government, are they more equal as Kenyans andthose who do not have?Com. Nancy Baraza: On that same issue of land, don’t you think there is a problem in the multiple ownership structure that wehave now. Some land is belonging to the state, some to government, some to community, some to individuals. It is being arguedand we can all see that we are not managing land for the benefit of every Kenyan. So, do you think if we centralize ownershipand probably and streamlined the management, l don’t know what your views are on these one.Honourable Martha Karua: Thank you for that very good question l think we should simplify the ownership procedure andalso centralize ownership. All land should belong to the people of Kenyan and that states if it was a state, so Kenyans shouldhave a right to challenge the government where it gives a out their land unfairly. l think in that regard, we will end speculationand escalating prices on land. These is the case in Zambia, it is the case in Tanzania, they do not know about high land prices.So it is time we rethink our land Kenya system.Com. Dr. Maranga: How many ministries do you propose in the new Constitution and Districts?Honourable Martha Karua.: No more than fifteen and districts should be according to the laws. We have forty three legaldistricts today and almost an equal of illegal districts, but l do not think creation of districts can be limited by the Constitution, ithas to be limited by law, the administrative and resource should not be distributed on the basis of district.For equitable distribution of resources, it must be a question of the population. On the issue of roads, you can not say it ispopulation, but if it is money to buy medicine you , you must actually talk of population in that district. If it is money for