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    "id": 1111581,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, it says that the boundary in Mtito Andei is the Tsavo River. Unless there is an earthquake, you cannot move the river. That is why this is important. There are so many cases that we are doing now. I am glad that Sen. Sakaja is here. Nowadays when you want to check your land, you just look for the Geographic Information System (GIS). If you want to know your piece of land, we are now doing GIS in Konza. They give you a mark. You go to your computer and can check your piece of land right there as you are sitting in your room. We ought to find a method of doing the same for boundaries. The conditions of Part IV and Part V are supposed to ensure that we have this. Madam Temporary Speaker, in Part VII, we have the regulations that will guide how Petitions are formulated and the sittings of this commission. The commission must be disbanded upon resolution of that boundary, whether it is accepted. We must contemplate the consolidation of Petitions. There are many. There is a schedule on boundaries of counties, requirements for Petitions, form of Petitions and conduct of business. However, I have not seen in the recent past a more beautiful law; The District and Provinces Act of 1992. It was beautifully written and very well done. That is the wisdom of having the 47 counties anchored around that 1992 law. It was spot on to do so. Madam Temporary Speaker, it was initially contemplated that we have 16 counties. There was 8, 16 and then 47. Sen. Sakaja and Sen. Murkomen participated in the making of the Constitution. Allow me to digress. I am actually told that the people who wanted 47 counties thought that if we have 47, the 47 counties would fail. The people who wanted a smaller number – 16 - wanted to consolidate. It means that Elgeyo-Marakwet would not have been a county itself; it would have been consolidated with another one. Makueni would possibly have been under Kitui and Machakos. That is how they had the 16. Can you imagine that the 47 counties of Kenya are a default? Somebody said: “Okay, let us give them the counties. If they want a cake, we will give them a cake and see what happens.” Can you go and dissolve Lamu county now? As small as it is, see what Sen. Sakaja will tell you. For some reason, the population of Lamu balances Nairobi. If Lamu is not on the outlier with Nairobi, whatever formula you use is wrong. That is how important Lamu is in relation to Nairobi, and that is how we got the formula right. Both Lamu and Nairobi ended up being an outlier. That is the beauty of counties."
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