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    "id": 1037146,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13131,
        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Since all Kenyans cannot go to any legislative assembly to represent themselves, then we are as equal as possible, the number of constituencies and representing as equal as possible number the people and that unit must be representative. This provides that number one, those counties that would have lost constituencies in the review under Article 89 do not lose those constituencies. The 290 are all protected. Some counties would have lost, for example, Isiolo and Lamu would have had only one, but they remain. Those who deserved are able to get the additional constituencies in terms of population so that each county has an almost equal number. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, before that, there was gerrymandering and you would find, a representative in Nairobi, for example, Embakasi, one MP was representing 900 000 people, while another was representing 10,000. The weight of a vote must be as equal as possible. I will skip Article 96 because it talks about the role of both Houses. We gave our thoughts on that, as well as Articles 97 and 98. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to go to a provision that I was very keen on the issue of Nairobi City County. There was a proposal of Article 200, to transfer permanently functions from Nairobi City County. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to thank you Senators for listening to me. This is because when we went to Naivasha, everybody was against touching a comma or The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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