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30strengthen the districts which can be divided into units forming the constituencies and then we do not need to call them divisions.Therefore, the DC’s and D.E.O’s ought to be elected directly by the people. They like the Mayors and chairmen of councilsshould be elected for a five-year period after which their contract would end. But they should be renewable. They can re-applyby vying for these things through their parties. The salary question in Kenya has become a very big bone of contention and thereshould be a national salaries division Commission. A standing national salaries division Commission. Then we can have branchesin various departments. So that when there is a query, it should be done by the branch, which shall then be sent to the nationallevel for approval. This may help us to unify the salary scales in Kenya. Thank you Mum.Com. Nancy Baraza: Thank you Mr. Murage. Please submit your memorandum and sign.John Stanley Murage: Everything is in the memorandum possibly the only vital thing, which am now able to mention is aboutthe vulnerable groups. I believe the question of women, children and possibly cripples, the disabled people are the products oftraditional bias. Because somebody without one leg is a human being and somebody who is by gender a woman or a man is ahuman being and instead of emphasis on these differences, we should be able to respectively assign rights to human beingsirrespective of the state.Com. Nancy Baraza: Those are very good views, we shall put them in expert language. But we value every view given byevery Kenyan. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for coming. Sign there and give your memorandum I will be veryvery strict on time. The next person is Lazarus Makawa. Lazarus? Joan Mureithi? John Muriuki? Joseph Ndambiri? JosephMuriuki I will give you exactly five minutes.Joseph Ndambiri: Thank you Constitutional Review Commissioners. My names are Joseph Ndambiri Wambugu. I am aretired officer with Ministry of Agriculture. My views, which am presenting are mainly personal according to the problems whichare being faced. Particularly on the side of the land.Land issues: When it comes to the management of the land, particularly, it seems as if most of the nutrients which are veryimportant for the production of crops, are not very much being taken care of as used to be before and as such production isdeclining and when it comes to poverty eradication, this one won’t help but it will facilitate. So all what I would like to say is thereinforcement of the Agricultural Act which controls or which encourages the farmers to protect soil erosion.On the other side, I come on the side of the democratic principles. Mainly when it comes to the democratic principles, the waythey ought to be applied, mainly they should be based on basic needs, which are very necessary for the development of thecitizens. Particularly when I mean the basic needs, each and every human being within the nation needs clothes, food andshelter. When we come to the standards of these basic needs, you find that there is some discrimination concerning these basicneeds.