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    "id": 1027020,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, they are now defining the country by drawing maps. There are red and green zones. When you look at those red and green zones, it reminds you of 1963. This is not the direction I would wish us, as the second Senate in the new Constitution, to visit upon our country. I urge my younger brother, Sen. Kang’ata, because he has been displaying a bit of agitation on this matter, that we all agree that in the next Sitting, some consensus would have been built not necessarily on which formula to take, but which steps we should take. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Constitution is very clear that if there is no new formula, then the formula in place remains the formula until we have a new one. Therefore, there is no lacuna . The country will not operate without a formula. I tell you, Senators, as I finish that you may think that the perimeter you hold dear is the only one that obtains in your county. The next day, there will be a shift of population to a different area of the country altogether because of economic activities. The parameters will change. So, there is no fixed position for anybody. The fixed position is the interest of the people of Kenya. That is what should be the fixed position. Mr. Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I urge my colleagues that all of us must be patriotic enough to know that the pain of a Kenyan in Korogocho must be felt by a Kenyan in Vanga. The pain of a Kenyan in Turkana, must be felt by a Kenyan in Murang’a. That is what the nation is all about. When you hear that somebody has been gunned down in Wajir, you feel the pain because he or she is your compatriot. That is not the same pain you probably would feel when you hear somebody was gunned down in Fiji, although it is humanity. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I urge you my distinguished colleagues – and I can see the tycoon from Nyeri County staring at me - that this is the direction we should go. This is the direction that will hold us together. Let us not have winners and losers in this debate. Let us have Kenya as the winner in this debate. Thank you."
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