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    "id": 1064054,
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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": "okay then, to say that there are a certain 27 constituencies that no matter how you apply Article 89 can change; but now it is unconstitutional to say that we want 70 and we want them here. I repeat; the people of Homa Bay County can feel that they have been slighted. They may then say that as Homa Bay County people, they want to add five constituencies, collect one million signatures and go to 24 county assemblies. We will not say that Homa Bay County people are usurping the role of the IEBC because we have supported them as Kenyans. However, they want to amend the Constitution to create five more constituencies and they have decided where they want the five. In the same breath, Kenyans had the right to say they want 70 new constituencies and this is where we want them. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have heard Members say that delimitation is the work of the IEBC and no one else can do it. May I state that the provision of 70 constituencies is not delimitation. The Africa Union Border Programme (AUBP) says delimitation and demarcation are taken together to emphasize the close relationship and they are not inter- changeable. Delimitation is the term applicable to describing a boundary line and a limit of an electoral area. Of the 70 constituencies, Nairobi City County gets 12. The IEBC will determine where those 12 will be. They will say Kasarani Constituency which has 397, 000 people can get be divided into two. They will go to another county which is to get five new ones and do the same. The actual delimitation using the formula in Article 89 of 40 and 30 per cent will be applied by IEBC. However, allocation is the same thing that we did in the last Constitution so that this is the exact number that---"
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