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    "id": 1426916,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Onyonka",
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        "legal_name": "Onyonka Richard Momoima",
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    "content": "about sharing, give and take and maintaining and sustaining a country that has come from adversity, which is going to move on to its great potential. The National Dialogue Committee (NADCO) Report is a good document. It deals with delimitation of boundaries and the commissioners who are going to be managing this Commission. That includes the chairperson and members who exist. It deals with how these people are going to be selected and the structure. One of the issues that I would want us to look at in this House, is how we begin to handle the clamor and request for counties to be increased. I was in Kuria over the weekend because I lost a very good friend. The members of that community in their discussion because we discuss politics in funerals, had the contention that Kuria should be made a county. According to them, they have been feeling that they have been marginalised and that if they got a county, they would most probably feel included and given an opportunity to chart their future. Madam Temporary Speaker, the point I raised in that funeral was that, honestly, from where I stand, I do not see them getting that county government. What I saw is that there is a way we can actually solve the problem of those areas you have been talking about such as Mt. Elgon, where there has been a lot of discussion and anger towards the fact that the people of the region, especially the Sabaot, feel that they have been excluded from what has been taking place in Trans Nzoia County. There are the Kuria people who feel like they have been excluded from Migori County. There are people from an area in the Central Rift region who also feel that with time and, given their history, they have to create their own constituencies. I would like to introduce and suggest to my colleagues together with my good brother Sen. Cheruiyot, the Senate Majority Leader, that we need to look at a way of creating protection of certain constituencies and ring-fence them. For instance, I do not see a contradiction if the Kuria were given two extra constituencies without them being given a county. In this case the Kuria would have four constituencies. That automatically means that they would be getting Kshs1 billion as a community from the national Government. If you add that to what the national Government would be giving out through the Senate as revenue going to Migori County they would actually be a beneficiary to such an arrangement. It would accommodate the marginalisation and give resources to these communities that feels that they have not been part of us. That is exactly the same argument I would give to my county which is Kisii. There has been a question and debate that has been going on over and over whether we should have got three counties. Yes, if we get an extra county in Kisii it would be a good idea. However, I wish that this team would look at the amendments where we again create protected constituencies. I would not mind that in Kisii County. The community has talked about Bobasi Constituency which has got 12 wards. The Member of Parliament Hon. Obiri, tells you that even when he is given National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF) he has 242 secondary schools, 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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