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48Com. Nancy Baraza: Asante sana Bwana Mwaniki. Please sign your name there. I am afraid we have to break for thirtyminutes. We shall be here at twenty-five minutes past two. Do not go away with your views; they are very very valuable so youcome back.Pauline Muthoni: Nii ndaheana karatathi na gwitu ni Karumandu location na nindaheana karatathi gakwa.Com. Nancy Baraza: Please come in we reconvene. I call everybody who is out there please come in so we start ourafternoon session. Welcome to our afternoon session. I now call Councillor Jeremiah Gateri Njoka the Chairman of KirinyagaCounty Council. I will give you five minutes.Councillor Jeremiah G. Njoka: I wish to give my views. My name is Jeremiah Gateri, the chairman of Kirinyaga CountyCouncil. I wish to give my views as I gave elsewhere but I intend to register my views in my constituency. Now one thing that Iwould like to see is that county council, local authorities, are entrenched in the Constitution of Kenya. For now they are runthrough an Act of Parliament which is not really giving them powers to execute and deliver services properly. That one I havealso said. When the Commissioner came at Kerugoya and we have also said as Algac. The big organization of local authority.So I want to say that I support and concur with views that at present we need the Constitution to stipulate fully about therunning of the country by the President. The President should not be above the law. He should be impeached if he is messing upin his office. I would also like to say that I am of the opinion that there should be checks and balances.We recently witnessed a case whereby they passed motions which they passed without consultation and it was to the detrimentof the public. Because, for instance when they passed their pay nobody was questioned. That is giving undeserved payrise whenthe economy is strained. I think the country should not have afforded such a high hike of money. I think there should besomething or another organ like a Senate to vet what the Lower House or the House of Representatives has passed. That is myopinion because if we leave it as one body, they can tomorrow pass something which is against everything else. It will be verydifficult to reverse.On sharing of national cake. I think there is a lot to be desired. Those Executives they have been given leeway and they areemployers and yet they are still employing and they are employers. They should at least be given to undertake one role.Because now at present that is why Kenya’s economy is out of hand. Because they are the ones with interest. If he is the onewho is importing, he is exporting. He is now giving all those letters of administration. Then the selfishness is there. Becausehuman beings are born selfish they are going to make everything to their own. So, it is better either to rule or to say that the civilservice should desist from doing trade. So that they can concentrate in their execution of service.Now on land policy I should say that we need to have a very concrete land policy. For now at present we don’t have landpolicy because we are sedimenting the ones we are having to the digit that is not going to be economically viable. I should say