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    "id": 1111591,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1111591/?format=api",
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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": "Today, you will find some governors offering services to the same place. We have seen governors building schools in neighbouring counties saying that it is part of their county. I remember officers of the IEBC sat here with us when we were discussing the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) and we exposed them because we brought the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS), the Survey of Kenya and the IEBC. However, the three entities are not sharing information. We were to do delimitation of constituencies but today, there is no one who can tell you the population of any ward because not every ward is a location but the census counted people in administrative units and not political units. So, how do you delimit a constituency? If you need to create a new constituency, then you should merge the wards. So, these agencies should sit together. We should have one single source of truth in terms of population data and cartographical maps for this country. Madam Temporary Speaker, we are in 2021 and this is the 21st Century. In as much as the old description is there, what happens when, for example, a tree that used to separate Nyamira from Kisii is cut? What happens when a coffee or tea plantation has been changed into something else? Let us use the technology we have. I am glad that in as much as this Bill relates to the disputes, the first thing that must be done, especially for the counties that have not had disputes with each other--- Nairobi and Kiambu do not have any dispute. We do not have any dispute between Nairobi City County and Kiambu County. It is just that when Members of Parliament want to go out of town, but not too far, we have our sessions at Windsor Golf Hotel and Country Club. It is only the golf course that is in Kiambu. If you look at the map, the place where we do our meetings and stay, is in Nairobi City County. Even the Hilton Garden Hotel, where people go to on Mombasa Road, is still in Nairobi City County, but at the edge."
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