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100Ngacha Karani: Society’s Act. The coffee industry should be left to be controlled directly by the farmers. Roasting of coffeeshould be done by the farmers and grinding and packing should also be done by the farmers to create more employment. Trustland should only be given to the needy. Tea Act should provide that farmers receive their proceeds directly from the market.Bank rates should be controlled by Central Bank to remove the theft that has been going on by foreign international banks.Export of raw materials or raw goods should be forbidden. There should be total protection of the same in Kenya.Our Kenyan economy should not be controlled by foreigners as it is today. Kenyans should not be refugees in their owncountry. The population of Constituencies should be fairly as equal as possible - at least forty thousand. The Judiciary being partof the corrupt area should be removed completely. No medicine should be imported into this country without being put undervigorous tests – as AIDS was brought into this country by a company called Mark, Sharp and Don Cooperation.Com. Keriako Tobiko: Can you wind up your submission Sir.Samuel Kimaru: Thank you Sir. Jomo Kenyatta International Airport should be owned by the freedom fighters who laboredthere for five years. Foreigners should not be allowed to own land or buy land in Kenya. The President should not be above thelaw. Thank you Sir.Com. Keriako Tobiko: Thank you so much. Samuel Kimaru.Samuel Kimaru: My preliminary observation is that the provision of civic education should be a continuous exercise so that wecan educate members of the public on why, how, where and what is our Constitutional Review. In that time, I am proposingthat this Commission should be given some permanency. It should not be a commission that is being used by Parliamentarianson powers that lead to determine the date of the general election. That is Constitution Review should extend for at least anotherone year.On the Presidency, I think, the man who is the President has no personal problems. The problem is the powers vested in thePresidency. I am proposing that the powers vested in the presidency should be redistributed among other group of players, sothat we can widen the scope of accountability, lighten the load of every individual player, establish an inbuilt system of checksand balances and then we do not often be blaming one person for all the wounds in this country.I am also proposing that the President should be assisted by a Prime Minister who should be in charge of the running of thegovernment. In making appointments to senior offices, he should be helped by an appointment committee that is not necessarilyanswerable to him or answerable to Parliament. There should also be an independent committee whose role will be to weigh theintegrity of appointees.