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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Joe Nyutu",
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    "content": "We will save on expenditure to be incurred from the public coffers. I am excited that the panel will be dissolved after three months. The mandate can only be extended as provided in the amendment upon careful considerations by Parliament. That is encouraging to me. Delimitation of constituency and ward boundaries is something that took a lot of my time when I was looking at this particular Bill and amendments that have been proposed. One thing that encourages me is that we will involve all and sundry. Those are our people in the villages. Of course, there is a provision for public participation. One important thing is that there will also be sensitization of members of the public. One thing that is not clear in the amendments is whether, when collecting the views of the public, we have a provision to have such views collected in vernacular. We have people who are knowledgeable but may not be good in Kiswahili or English. I would have loved to see an amendment proposing that views can also be collected in vernacular and a provision is made for a good interpreter in order for the views of all and sundry to be captured. I say this because over the past 20 or so years, we have been having an increase of vernacular radio and television stations. Our people have been given a lot of civic education through vernacular stations. Since we also want their views, a provision should be made to ensure that those who can only express themselves in vernacular are not left out of this very important process that affects them directly. I join those who have spoken before me and talked about the figures that the population census produces. They have been disputed in the past. So, there should be a better process for carrying out a population census. I propose that the officers carrying out the census, visit homes and places of work to collect data on the population and counting of people. As they do so, they should refer to the data with the Civil Registration Services. This will ensure that we are not told of numbers that are non-existent in some places. Every piece of information that they collect is compared and contrasted against what we have at the Civil Registration Services. We should get the exact numbers of people that we have in our regions. The birth certificate should be a prerequisite for somebody to be counted. I am also excited by the fact that we will have individual responsibility for officers, especially when we are doing the delimitation of boundaries. Any officer that is supposed to publish on the Kenya Gazette the views of the public and fail to do so, will have committed an offence and be liable to imprisonment for a term of one year. This will bring in individual responsibility so that we do not have people who have been compromised somewhere, leading to failure in publishing important information in Kenya Gazette. That is also something that caught my eye and thought was very important. We should slowly move from collective responsibility to individual responsibility of anyone serving in a public office, especially if it is a matter that affects the public. We need a foolproof election. As I said earlier, when we have these disputes, some of us value our peace, are patriotic are would not want to see any destruction of property and disruption of people's lives. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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