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51Geofrey Watiti: Yeah because this is where---Interjection. Com. Bishop Njoroge: What I am saying is what we are writing is what has to go to the Consitution. Now,you are saying foreigners must be allowed to air their views. That is a statement that can be there, but we cannot write forforeigners their own Constitution?Geofrey Watiti: Not so, partly may I suggest---Com. Bishop Njoroge: Constitution is a very important document so don’t just- because people have been talking; pleasegive us views that we will put in. Those are views, but let us be a little bit serious because this is a serious exercise.Geofrey Watiti: Also on sports, may I comment that coaches be hired from foreign countries to coach our players rather thandepending on people from within. Local people have embezzled sports money and some sportsmen are just elected torepresent us in the international tournaments because of may be bribes. And on athletics, there is no need of hiring foreigncoaches since we are capable and our athletic- men have made our country proud by winning more than any other country.Also in Western province, we should be given freedom or religion for instance dini ya Msambwa as a sect be recognized. Thisis so because the person or the sect leader Msambwa Wanameme Elijah has been forgotten. During public ceremonies theymust be rewarded in one way or the other by may be being given an opportunity even to address or to remember their heroicsensation during the time Elijah was alive. We must also be proud of our black colour and our culture which culture also may inone way be a tourist attraction that may earn us some foreign exchange.Another issue, is that the sitting President must be in office for two terms by the mandate of the Kenyan electorate and that thePresident has not right to anoint or even propose a successor. Instead, the issue be followed as in the party Consitution asregistered under the Act of registered parties. Because Head of State has all the state machinery and he proposes a candidatethat the wishes, he might be making people security to be in a more uncondusive environment. Let him follow the regulations orguidelines of the manifesto and the Constitution ruling the party itself.Com. Bishop Njoroge: Give us your last point.Geofrey Watiti: Women and political participation. In any society like Kenya, women make up to 52% and they aredecision-makings organs yet they are not recognized. I therefore recommend the following Affirmative Action steps to betaken, campaign against early marriages and encourage our parents to invest in girl education, support the legislation thatencourages equality to inheritance with exception on land among the Luhya community- that land cannot be owned by a girl inthe society and that a woman must not be empowered in the house. The man is the head of that home.