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    "id": 1064115,
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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": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am making my point. I have a track record in this House. This House has a HANSARD. This is a House of records. The Senator of Kilifi, I stood with you when Kilifi was losing. It is not about who is gaining. On allocation of resources and equity, I am clear, but on equality of the vote; a principle in Article 21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Even in our Constitution, we talk about 30 and 40 per cent. I will ask the lawyers who are senior here. Look at Catcher vs Dagete in the United States Supreme Court, a deviation of 0.7 per cent was found to be too much. Another point of information, because I can see Sen. Wetangula going to Article 89, again consult the HANSARD of this House. In 2009/2010, when this Constitution was being written, I dictated the whole of Article 89 that we have in this Constitution. So, I understand it. Therefore, the question that you have asked is a record of this House. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the question you were asking on how geography will be taken into account, on how community of interests will be taken into account and how all the factors there will be taken into account, that then is the work of the IEBC when they are drawing the actual boundaries. As I conclude, the cardinal point of imbalances, which we are talking about, I will show imbalances. The principle of equality of the vote is that because not all Kenyans can come to Parliament, Kenyans need to be in as equal as possible constituencies to give one representative. Today the people of Kasarani, for instance - I will use Nairobi as an example - are 398,000 with one Member of Parliament, while the people of Isiolo South are 77,000, but both have one vote. The people of Elgeyo-Marakwet as a county are 444,000, while Nairobi is 4.3 million, yet we are talking about representation of the people. It is the right of the people to be equally represented. The issue in our country is that we mix two things; allocation of resources and representation of the people."
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