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    "id": 1111589,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1111589/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "happens when a river has changed course? Because of human development, that river is no longer where it used to pass. What happens when you say it was the railway line and now there is a new railway line, or it has been moved? That is a problem we should not be grappling with. I am glad that once we have this framework, we shall now use the technology that we have today. That is Geographic Information System (GIS). The GIS we have today can tell you specifically--- It does geographic referencing of the physical place on earth to Global Positioning System (GPS). No matter who draws it, we can know the co-ordinates of each county and we will not have disputes again. Once we know the border between Nairobi and Kiambu and the co-ordinates, no matter what you build or even change a river or a hill, that coordinate remains, so long as Kenya remains on the globe. I will give examples of a software like ArcGIS. This is a software that is used to create and analyse spatial and geographic information for the sake of planning. There is what we have been trying to do with Nairobi City County in terms of spatial planning. Using that software and the information and the technology we have today, it becomes easy even to do referencing and addressing the value of rates we can collect as a City. I am very happy that we can have this framework as envisaged in the Constitution, so that we sort out all these disputes. In fact, the first thing they must do is to give us--- There is a difference between an illustration and a map. What we have in the Constitution is an illustration. When the IEBC gave their first boundaries, I remember at that time we had a lot of back and forth with Hon. Ligale and his Commission. One month to the expiry of their term, it must have been on 27th November, 2012, they did not have the data from the census in soft copy to load on the ArcGIS and move the locations that build up constituencies. Therefore, they just drew the constituencies. Today, if you go to the Survey of Kenya and ask for a proper cartographical map- -- A cartographical map shows you the age, physical features, coordinates and the end of a constituency. If they did that, many of the disputes we have been having would have been resolved in this country. When you go to some parts of this country, you will find two chiefs. Since two communities did not agree, one community will call it “Makutano,” while another one will call “Mkutane”. In that same place, you will find two different chiefs who offer the same Government services just for the sake of peace because people have not accepted the boundaries and they have not been told. We need to change how we think about boundaries. Boundaries are not fences to keep people apart from each other because a Kenyan can live anywhere. A Kenyan should live anywhere in this country, whether the boundary is drawn or not. Boundaries are important for administrative and political planning in terms of electoral boundaries. People find expression through the place where they exercise their sovereignty in terms of voting. That must be clear. We must know the extent of a constituency or a county such that when Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. becomes governor next year, inshallah, because I know there is a god that he will, it will be easy for him to plan where he will collect cess and where he will give services."
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