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69Com. Keriako Tobiko: Thank you so much. Anthony Muriuki.Anthony Muriuki: Thank you Mr. Chairman. These are my recommendations. They are centered around the electoral systemand process. There should be a minimum percentage of votes that a Ward Constituency and Presidential candidates must attainin order to be declared the winners. These candidates should attain 51% majority of registered votes. This will take care of thethird opinion where a voter refuses to vote because he or she is not satisfied by any of the candidates.Com: Keriako Tobiko: Excuse me. You have made a point and a recommendation. Please don’t go on to repeat that. Go onto the next point.Anthony Muriuki: If they do not achieve this fifty one per cent, then there should be a rerun. The second recommendation: Acandidate who fails to seek nomination in one party, can be allowed to switch over and seek nomination from another party.Third recommendation; The election date should be specified in the Constitution. The fourth one: We should not retaingeographical Constituency system, their boundaries should be redrawn with considerations of the population in each region. Thefifth recommendation is that we should practise representative electoral system. Thank you so much.Com. Keriako Tobiko: Thank you so much. James Muriuki Kamunu.James Muriuki Kamunu; Thank you very much. I am presenting this memorandum on behalf of Itiaki Primary school parents.Constitutional supremacy. Here, we discussed about citizenship. A child whose both parents are Kenyans should be a citizen ofKenya. Somebody who has stayed in Kenya for more than fifteen years can apply to be a citizen and the government shouldconsider him and give him that citizenship.The other thing is, if a woman or a man marries a foreigner, that foreigner should be given citizenship of Kenya. All citizens ofKenya should have access to medical, education, food and every other requirements.The other thing is discipline: Discipline is a must in our Armed Forces. They should be disciplined. The other thing is thatKenyan President should not be the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. The Parliament should be given powers overArmed Forces. President should not declare any emergency in our land. Only Parliament should do that.We should have only two political parties in Kenya. If somebody wants to register a political party, he should not have less thanfifty thousand members or followers. We should have only …..sorry…the expenditure of our land should be vetted orrecommended by Parliament only. The PIC & PAC seats should have more members from the opposition and the Chairmanshould be elected from the opposition. There should be independent candidates during elections. These ones should not