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The committee of the land board should be appointed by the community, the same elders who handle the land cases should be
the same to be elected by the community.
Kenya should continue with a central government, but there should be a Provincial head from Parliament e.g. appointee from
Parliament to head Provincial matters. PC should not be the only boss of the province.
The President should not be above the law, and subject to code of conduct. The same should be applied. Let me read the last
one and I leave the others. This one is for the aged. Our aged are left without any one thinking of them. All aged people who
are over 70 years, should benefit from free community resources e.g. they should have free medical, services. If not so,
insurance firms should be forced to allow them insure things with them. You know when you are aged, you are not allowed to
insure, you don’t have medical cover and you are left like that. So the aged people are just left to die, without anyone thinking
about them.
Com. Wambua: Asante sana Bwana Hezron. Tutamuita MuNgai wa Kangethe. MuNgai Kangethe yuko? Hayuko. Basi
tumuite Ndirangu James Mwaura.
James Ndirangu: I don’t know where they have authority on measuring boundaries. I want to mention an example. You talk
of the problem of creation of constituenies. I was imagining of one. You know Transmara district, most of us have ever heard
of that district. Transmara district, has only one MP. The whole district has only one MP, because the population of that area,
may not warrant the division of the districts in different constituencies. So what I am saying is this, we are creating
constituencies, to give some favours to people who have maybe subscribed some loyalties to a certain political party; or to a
certain person in the government. At the end of the day we have so many constituencies created by the current regime to give
people favours of what they had done to them. At the end of the day, we are having so much of our tax payers money given to
people other than doing what they paid it for. So what I am saying in other words, in general, I am saying that the powers of
the President should be reduced and we should have the special appointees, because generally this people are not there to
serve the public. Most of them are there to faciliatate some views. They are given some responsibilities, that is what we know
theoretically, but then whenever they are given some responsibilities to facilitate some views to favour the person who appointed
them. That is why I am saying the powers of the President should be curtailed; so that we don’t end up having to pick
appointees.
I have my opinion as far as the policemen are concerned. I feel that we should have a Constitution, which clearly stipulates the
authority of a policeman over an individual, a mwananchi. When we get into different circumstances, or different situations, you
know what is likely to happen to you, once you break the law. Otherwise we get ourselves in maybe demostrations, maybe
you are in a procession, a peaceful one; and this guys are sent by somebody because maybe that procession was meant to
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