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operate, or be affiliated to any private health facility. The health personnel should be paid properly in order to deter them doing
other business apart from which they have been employed to do. The health officers should abide and follow proper health
edicts according to the hypocritical oath they have taken upon graduation. Herbal medicine should be allowed to be
administered by licensed traditional health workers as an alternative medicine.
Cost sharing in our government hospitals should be abolished. Public health rules should be strengthened and enforced in order
to eradicate many communicable diseases. That is, public health rules should be enforced.
First aid should be taught in schools, as a curriculum subject and also in our health institutions, free of charge, including
volunteers. First aid kits should always be available in public offices, public transport systems and in all motor vehicles. In order
to control the Aids/ HIV menace, an Aids.. (Inaudible), drug should be imported, given free by the government, to all HIV
patients, in our medical institutions.
Shelter: In shelter we also include drug issues in our country. Every Kenyan has a right to own or inherit anywhere in Kenya.
Landlords should be deliberated in order to have a balanced ownership of land. A person with more than 300 acres of land not
properly utilized, should automatically lose the right of ownership.
Interjection.
Com. Wambua: Bwana Maina, tulisema uzungumzie mambo ambayo yako katika hiyo memorandum, na tukasema
usiyakamilishe sana na muda hautaturuhusu. Kwa hivyo, ongea maneno ambayo umeandika kwa kifupi halafu, memorandum
tutaichukua, tutaisoma sisi wenyewe, halafu tutasikia ni maneno gani ambayo umezungumzia hapo. Kwa hivyo, highlights pekee
yake tafadhali.
Maina: A person with more than 100 acres not properly utilized, should automatically lose right of ownership to the
government, which should then be subdivided the land to landless squatters in the country.
There should be a right of inheritance of land or property by either spouse, siblings, parents or any other person desirable, by
the owner of the said piece of land or property according to the customary wishes of the said owner of the property.
Kwa upande wa uchumi,-Economy: Kenya being an agricultural economy, there should be a need for the cause of produce of
agricultural crops, to be subsidized by the government e.g. fertilizers, seeds, insecticides, fungicides and others.
The road systems, particularly the feeder roads should be properly maintained in order to aid the flow of the produce to the
market.
Taxes should also be minimized at an affordable rate. This one. …(Not clear) taxes should be abolished. Local resources
should also be controlled and should benefit local residents.