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"content": "I am sorry, Madam Temporary Speaker. That is the problem of moving too many times. Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to move that The County Boundaries Bill (Senate Bills No.20 of 2021) be now read a Second Time. Under Article 188 of the Constitution, the jurisdiction of altering boundaries lies squarely with Parliament, the National Assembly and Senate. I am not quite sure in the times that we have done this Bill why the National Assembly has found that this is a money Bill. The reason I say so is because Article 188 speaks county boundaries. That is straightforward. What is it that makes it a money Bill? There has been a notion that the commission that is proposed under Article 188 is what falls under Article 114 as a money Bill, which is not correct at all. In terms of Article 61, which defines the 47 counties, this Bill seeks to have a method. The principle for this Bill and for those who have disputes on county boundaries, which include Isiolo, Meru, Kakamega, Kisumu, Taita-Taveta, Makueni, Machakos, the idea is, first of all, to anchor your counties in law. As we speak today, the counties are anchored under the District and Provinces Act of 1992, which defined the boundaries. I was hoping that Sen. Mwaruma would be here. Recently, a court issued an order and told Makueni County that it cannot pick revenue from Mtito Andei. The court issued an injunction. A court in Mombasa stopped a county government from collecting own-source revenue. What is the basis? The basis is that subsequent amendments to the Districts and Provinces Act possibly moved a ward to another county. I am glad that Sen. Murkomen has arrived, and Sen. Sakaja who is going to second the Bill is here. The compromise for this Constitution was to have the outer limit for boundaries at 1992. Unfortunately, boundaries have been altered. For example, if they did not use the 1992 framework, the amendment by Sen. Wambua to have Mwingi become a county would be a county. However, the cut-out was 1992 and, therefore--- I forgot to even mention you, Madam Temporary Speaker, we have disputes with Kajiado County where you come from. The Bill is a framework that seeks to find a method of how to resolve boundary disputes before they are altered. It does not seek to change the boundary of any county. It first anchors the framework of the county. Thereafter, any person who is interested will have an opportunity to have a framework. The taskforce that was formed by the then Cabinet Secretary, Hon. Nkaisserry led to a court case. I was here with Sen. Dullo and we opposed the framework, which did not find any formula, except disputes in Isiolo and Meru counties. Therefore, this Bill seeks to end the disputes once and for good. I have proposed to have a framework for resolution of county disputes in Clause 3. I have followed a traditional method that we have where I come from; where if you have a boundary dispute with somebody, you plant sisal and use a sisal rope. These are traditional methods of resolving some of the boundary disputes without getting into a quarrel."
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