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    "content": "From here, it goes straight to Kiringiti Island and then straight north to most western point of Mageta Island. Thereafter, it goes straight northwest to the southern point of Suba Island. It then goes southwest to the western shores of the Island to its most northern point, by a straight line northeast to the center mouth of the Sio River. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this boundary that I am describing exists. It was agreed on in 1886 between the British and the Germans when they came to take over our region. It went on and was documented in 1890. It was then formally captured into a document in 1926. This document is called the “Order in Council”. It was then captured by the Kenyan Government in 1963 in our Constitution. It was also captured by the Ugandan Government in her Constitution at Independence. The same boundary was captured by the Ugandan Government in 1995 when President Yoweri Museveni brought new order in Uganda. It is amazing that with all these facts, the Government of Kenya is packed with Ministers and Assistant Ministers who are lazy and tired. They do not want to go to the library or the national archives to retrieve these kind of documents. Instead the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister for East African Community go into a bi-lateral agreement with the Ugandan Government and commit Kshs280 million of taxpayers' money for an exercise, which is already comprehensively taken care of. This is simply because these people are too big to spare a moment to study. No wonder they did not even bother to read our Budget before it was presented to this House. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, because I know they do not even have time to go to the library, I want to take this opportunity to present this document to this House. This document is now in the custody of none other than the State Department of the United States of America. It is the international boundary study that has captured all these details. With it, there are 180 beacons, which have been put between Kenya and Uganda. They have been put all the way up to West Pokot, Saboti, Kwanza and Kacheliba. All of them are marked there and there is no reason this Government should subject Kshs280 million to such a waste. I table this document so that we save them that trouble."
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