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83moral conduct he should be impeached. If he abuses office, he should equally be impeached. The other thing is that thequalification of a President should be at least a graduate – degree, preferably who have worked in private or public for at least10 years. He should be at least of 40 years of age and above.I’m also proposing that the President should get at least 60% of elected voters.Commissioner: question not clearMohammed Ahmed: I’m saying that because, many are times when, the President may be getting 30% of elected voters, thatis not majority. If the President gets less than 60%, then the 1 st one and the 2 nd one must join race and come up with onePresidential candidate.Well, the khadhi’s court, the judiciary, if I may talk abit about it, but be totally indipendent. I think the court of appeal must befully protected by security of office to ensure proper discharge of their duties. The Khadhi’s court should be accorded in fullpower. Prestige and decision of any other proffesional court, the Chief Khadhi should be of equivalent status of Chief Justice.Let me talk about the issue of poverty. Infact many times we spend so much resources on poverty education programme. Youfind that a lot of more expense on big hotels like Serena, Silver Spring, Safari Park, yet the people who are the real beneficiariesfor that programme are at ground levels. Up to now we have been talking of poverty education plan, and we have not reachedthe community. I think that money would have been invested here, we would have discussed with the locals, we would haveseen where the problem is, and we would have come up with a realistic, achievable, plan, because that one is not realistic and itis not achievable. Thank you.Com. Baraza: Poverty is quite an issue, we Kenyans are sinking deeper into it. Do you have any ideas on how Kenyans canbe jump started. Are you suggesting the money being spent in Serena could be put in the hands of somebody in North Easternto jump start them or how do you see Kenyans getting out of this situation?Mohammed Ahmed: I am saying that, we would have ____ (inaudible) this programme, if we would have come directly tothe community, and ____ (inaudible) the community, than dealing with people in Nairobi, and asking what the problem is, howcan you eradicate poverty? They are not addressing(interruption)Com. Baraza: Apart from coming to ask the people, to involve them, how do you thin this can be handled? Personally, Iwant your views.Mohammed Ahmed: Ok. One, we say, I said the issue of famine relief, the issue that is given to reduce poverty, I feel this