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credible, people with good integrity, they should have their house without any criminal records so that they could get good
people. I don’t feel that the legislators should be left alone to work out everything for the country. There should be another arm,
that is, the Executive and the area of the P.C. the area of the D.C. should equalize with what the legislators do, so they bring
what comes out of the constitution for the sake of the citizens.
Again, there is also the view of having the re-writen constitution, not the old one. The one that will be written should be made
mandatory, to be taught in schools. Ifundishwe shule zote. Ili hata mtoto akikua, awe anajua vile constitution inaeleza. So that
we may not have the thing like ile tuko nayo sasa, kujua – sijui constitution iko namna gani, ikienda namna gani, inakaa namna
gani, kutoka wakati mtoto akiingia kwa shule, ipangwe sawa sawa ati constitution inafundishwa kila mahali. Those are my
views.
Thank you.
Com. Wanjiku: Thank you very much. Nimukuigwa rehu?
Com. Wambua: James, … something very small. You said that M.I should be elected and councilors should be elected. Don’t
you see an overlap, because what will be the function of the chief and the function of the councilors if all of them are to be
elected?
James: They are in the local government, and this is the Executive. The Executive somehow guides the P.C. and the D.C. That
is how they should execute what the Executive tabulates. The chief is to liaise with the D.C. up like that. I was imagining
abolishing the office of the D.O. we only have a chief who will be answerable to the D.C. That arm of the Executive. And then
we have the local government, where we have the councilor and the parliamentarians…(Interjection).
Com. Wambua: so they continue doing the same job, except they should be elected?
James: Yes they are elected.
Com. Wanjiku: Gathogo, ndakuhe ndagika imwe Okay, thank you na hoe ndira confirm maciogo na imwe Wainaina,
ndina John mbogu, na John Gatogo ndira confirm ndirakorwo nikumedete na dirashoka maiganetwe (inaudible) John
please make arragement cio ciaku tene twakue dagika ijiri.
Gathongo: (Speaks in Kikuyu). Hakwa nie kwaria ohoro wa migonda, uhoro wa megonda ni uhoro utraga andu mono
tondu tukerora uhoro wa megonda kuri mina migenda manene na aria ake marito squatters neye ni kioria Commission
to abolish that name squatter, tondu you cannot be a squanter in your country you were born here, grown here and you
are a squantter ne ikioria ritwa reuo retegacoke gotomiro tondu ha mundu umenti murima ana muganda munene goko