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    "id": 1384899,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1384899/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilgoris, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Sunkuli",
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    "content": "My colleagues who already have high demographic returns cannot come back to say because they made more babies when the policy was against it, they should now be rewarded for it. This country must be judged in many other ways. For instance, if you want to create a constituency out of Kilgoris, you have to look, not at the population but at the nature of representation in that area. We have Kipsigis, Maasai and other ethnic groups. It is always good to make constituencies as homogenous as possible in terms of their formation. Because some of these little disputes that people have within their constituency is because of the little tribal suspicions. If you can be able to group people more homogenously and not by counting how many they are, it will make a lot of sense. Population can be used as a criterion but it must never be the most important one. Geography cannot be gain said. You cannot imagine that some constituencies like Narok South can be as big as three or four other constituencies in another area, which I do not want to name. But then, ladies and gentlemen from the other area are saying, they require more representation because they have more people. We also require more representation because we have more land and because our territory is vast and difficult. Constituencies must not be created based on the fact that people are many. Indeed, this should extend to many other resources of the country. Every Kenyan citizen should get a share, not based on how many children they were able to produce, but based on the needs of the ones that they have."
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