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    "id": 1426593,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, if you listened to how the Senator for Nakuru was giggling and the history of Sen. Boni Khalwale, you can imagine. He has a track record of finding a special heart in women. Audit, as captured under introduction of Clause 24 (a). I agree with this clause because we have been doing this. Let us audit an election after it is done. The audit should aim to improve. The report must be published and submitted to Parliament through the Justice Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committees (JLAHRC) we have. There have been arguments about opening the election servers and tufungue server. We were told that some of the servers were in France. We were also told that there is Jose Carmago. So that we put those stories and others of abunuasi to an end, we must audit an election. When Parliament has considered the report, let it be made public. This is also in the spirit of the 1997 Inter-Parties Parliamentary Group (IPPG) reforms. All election participants would congregate in the same place. Number two is the delimitation of electoral units. There are over 40 constituencies that are called 'protected.' Over these 40 constituencies, my colleague mentioned a number of them. One is the Hamisi Constituency, and the others are in Vihiga County. We also have Bura and Galole constituencies. We have over 40 protected constituencies across the country, from the populous to non-populous regions. According to the population quarter, a constituency defined as protected did not meet the threshold of 164,015 population as per the 2019 census. Many people do not agree with the 2019 census. At the end of the day, I agree with my brother, who said in the morning that the population determines a lot of issues. Apart from voting, it determines the allocation of resources. You have heard the conversation on the revenue formula. We have just concluded passing the mediated version of the Division of Revenue Bill. The Senate and the National Assembly have agreed to allocate counties Kshs400.1 billion as opposed to Kshs415 billion. I do not know who permitted the committee to do this because we had agreed to allocate Kshs415 billion to counties. This is a story we will write in our books. On a lighter note, I saw the Council of Governors (CoG) say they negotiated. I do not know where governors are in the negotiations and appropriation of the budget. We do not see the same energy and machismo the governors use to say that they have negotiated for Kshs400 billion on the ground. We do not see where the money we send to counties is going. We must see development. Electoral units are about population, which are, in turn, votes that lead to resource allocation. It is always a big problem---"
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