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"content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, without belabouring the point, I move that this Bill be read a second time. I hope that we can get this done. Although the Speaker said that this is not a campaign platform, I just hope that if I am elected, I do not have to deal with these issues of boundaries when I go to Makueni. The physical boundary between us and Kajiado is just a line in the sand. When we buy cattle from the people of Kajiado, where you come from, we do not look at boundaries. We look at your beautiful cows. When you bring your children, use our facilities or we share markets like we do, a money market is a shared function between Kajiado and Makueni. All the onions and vegetables that you find there are not grown in Makueni. They are actually grown in Kajiado. Madam Temporary Speaker, we are only passing this framework of county boundaries as an administrative way of everybody lying where they belong, the same way you fence your piece of land or your manyatta . In Makueni, people do not do fences. There is sisal plant here and there, and those are boundaries. It is just a way of making sure that we have order. It is actually a tragedy that you can have order of constituencies and wards and no order of counties. It is strange that we lay the boundaries of our wards, but we do not know the boundaries of our counties. Yet, when I was campaigning for your Member of County Assembly (MCA), I knew that I was in Kajiado when I crossed to Kajiado. How can we have confusion about boundaries? This is a very important law, and I hope that we can resolve these issues. I also hope that this framework will not bring this country into a war between counties. If Konza is in Machakos or Makueni, the Konza facility cannot be used by one exclusive person. The Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) can be said to be both in Nairobi and Machakos. It is a shared facility. We can enjoy these facilities without quarrelling. Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to move and request my good friend and brother, Sen. Sakaja, to second."
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