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"content": "I am sorry, Madam Temporary Speaker. Let me amend. I am saying, ‘Madam Speaker’. I do not want the Class of 1993 to raise issues with me that I am not able to recognise, Madam Temporary Speaker, who was my classmate. Those who doubt that we went to school together, I confirm that we went to The University of Nairobi. I thank Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., one of the most brilliant Senators. We wish you well in you ambitions of becoming the Governor for Makueni County. This House will sorely miss your brilliant debate. We wish you well because that will be a promotion. Madam Temporary Speaker, I hope that this time our brothers and sisters who come from the counties that we represent in the Senate will look at this Bill objectively. Look at the good intentions behind the Bill and the framework put in place to assist counties in solving a number of disputes facing them. It will be a sad day if, this time around, the National Assembly becomes an impediment to the passage of this Bill. I will make an effort to speak to the Members of Parliament from my county. We are also victims. We have a boundary dispute between the county of Kisii and Nyamira at a town called Keroka. I have crafted a Statement that is coming to the House, where I want the Cabinet Secretary of Interior and Coordination of National Government to point out to us where the boundaries of Keroka Township is between Kisii and Nyamira counties. This is causing problems. About five weeks ago, I was at home and had a huge delegation of business people from Keroka who are facing double taxation so to speak. They paid license fee to the County Government of Nyamira and a few weeks down the line, enforcement officers from the County Government of Kisii were at Keroka demanding for rates to be paid to the County Government of Kisii. When they resisted, their goods were carted away. These are innocent traders. People are suffering during this difficult and hard COVID-19 period. It is good that we have a framework that can deal with some of this vagueness in terms of boundaries between many counties. I have tried to read the description that sets the boundaries between Nyamira and Kisii counties. If you ask anybody from North Mugirango, when you say it commences at Nyaututu and Sondu rivers, they will tell you that should not be the case. They know that they have a township called Chabera. Maybe at that time, the small centre had not been recognised. So, we used Nyaututu and Sondu rivers."
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