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42could be elected from any public office or from business circle provided he has been successful in those areas. In addition to hisnoble duties of the President which we all know, directives and policy statemens should be issued from State House, the highestseat of government, to avoid the present system of issuing directives from anywhere and we donot whether they have a forceof law or not. It should come from the State house itself. In fact I have seen, I have not traveled abroad very much, where aPresident wears a uniform, kind of ….you have seen it. That kind of thing. The duties of the President are very well known. Idon’t have to speak about them.Our founding father by then, Late Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, set a precedent. He ruled for fifteen years and I have been looking fora place like this where I would recommend that every person be allowed to rule for three years term. Because that one is thewish of God, Mzee Kenyatta died after fifteen, nobody should rule beyond fifteen years - Elected three times. This will be inagreement because the rule says ten years.Mr. Chairman, there was a time Kenya was one. The Colonialists, - you people who have been there during colonial days,wentahead and divided us……Com. Bishop Njoroge: I want you to state your recommendations.Ndegwa Muno: My recommendations here…..I was saying so because my recommendation here is, the boundaries should bedrawn on ethnic basis to avoid people in places fearing or being treated as guests. This has happened already in our owncountry. This now should be looked out to draw correct boundaries. E.g. the Coast Province should be one region. All thosepeople are Swahili speaking. A place like Western Province should encompass Uasin Gishu and Tranzoia because the peopleare many let us acknowledge that fact. Central Province could perhaps go up to the Eastern side of the Kericho includingLaikipia, Nyandarua, Meru, Embu because those people have been one ethnic group. Let us say from there, - those areregionalists as far as they are concerned.Then we have got elections. I say that we should have Regional Assemblies. The Regional Assemblies’ elections should be heldtogether with civic. But there should be no way where, Presidential elections should be held together. Because of the economy,we should have Parliamentary, Civic and Regional at one time. So that later on after six months, then we should havePresidential elections so that, that man resigns as I have said.The Parliament should also observe that all elected offices are for five years term for fifteen years, three years term. Thank youvery much.Com. Bishop Njoroge: Timothy Waruinge. John G. Mwangi.