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13Com. Bishop Njoroge: You have already spent 8 minutes, dakika nane- 3 minutes above, I will give you two minutes tofinish.Cyprian Walutila: Okay, on the political parties, they should not be funded by the State. Every party should look for it’sfinancing on its own and be able to finance its projects and use its own resources. In addition to that, the State should notinterfere on where the source of the funds come from. The political parties should be able to source for their fund fromwherever they can get it. On the political parties also, they should be de-linked from the government and especially politicalfunctions should be completely non-interference free from the Civil servants or government functionaries.The Legislature; this is where I have major input that I need to-- just give me some one minute there, I finish, it is that or ourrecommendation is, we retain our Presidential system. The appointment of Heads of ministries should not be from MPsbecause, we believe that if we want to separate powers, the Legislature, the Executive and the Judiciary, then it is unfair to havea Minister who is both a Legislator and an Executive. I don’t see how you can separate those powers. This is holding twopositions. One is the legislature, another one is the Executive. So, us we believe that the heads of ministries should be completeCivil servants who are appointed and interviewed by Public Service Commission and recruited. After the President hasappointed them, the Parliament will vet and will remain civil servants to head ministries. The Legislature is just to make law andto ensure that those are followed but not to have people attending both. The age limit for the President, we have put it between35 – 75 years, and that means, the President should not be elected who is above 70 years since he will go beyond 75 year limit.That one is because if we are taking judges of the wise people, and their retirement is 74, it means wisdom however good it is,ends at some age. So, we want the President to be in full capacity when he is a President. Anybody beyond 75 will be senileand we believe, he will not lead this country properly.On the nominated MPs, we have said that there should be no nominated MPs. We believe that the nominated MPs have beenused badly by the nominating organ and if we have any people with disabilities or women whom we want to have greaterrepresentation, they should elect their own people. Nobody should nominate for them. It is their duty to elect that group, notsomebody else nominating for them and bringing somebody in who is not right or who is just a supporter.Com. Bishop Njoroge: ---------- (inaudible)Cyprian Wamutila: Okay thank you. No, it is alright. I have everything written. So my final point will be just on Localgovernment where we have recommended or our wish is that the Constitution takes care of the Local Authority and peopleelect their chairmen and Mayors directly. And powers of the Provincial administration; the Provincial administration should beremoved and those functions should be done by the Local authorities; that is the local Chairman should be the one who isExecutive in that place. Not somebody being appointed from elsewhere, coming there and imposing himself on the people, it is