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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kaino",
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    "content": "Sorry, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I have amended the last sentence of the Motion by deleting the words:- \"With a minimum of three divisions to every district across the board\". Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, having said that, I wish to say that this is a very important Motion. The intention and objective of this Motion is that this country is developing very fast and some constituencies in this country will be left behind very much if we continue to dish out districts on the roadside as it is today. There is no Act or legislation governing the creation or abolition of districts and I decided to bring this Motion so that this House can pass it, so that this country will be very strong economically and its resources will be shared equitably. The creation of districts and provinces was an effective way of decentralising the Central Government to lower levels and to make services available and cheaper to the common man and woman on the ground. Services like health, issuance of land title deeds, the survey of land and demarcations should be done at the constituency level. This is also a way of reaching the people with better and improved services. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, as you can see today, in every district, there is some allocation of funds which go directly to the district kitty. If you do not have a district as a constituency, only the constituencies with districts are the ones that benefit from it. What has October 22, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2895 actually prompted me to bring this Motion is that many constituencies today have one Member of Parliament and one District Commissioner. This brings a lot of problems to those constituencies which are also not districts. At the district level, the District Commissioner has a lot of administrative powers on the ground. When a Member of Parliament is there with the respective District Commissioner, you will find that there is a lot of improvement on the ground. When it comes to recruitment of civil servants, you will notice that it is based on districts. If you get a constituency where they have got three Members of Parliament and only one District Commissioner, you will find that there are chaos in that place. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the armed forces and police personnel are recruited based on the districts and every constituency has to get an equal share in that district, whereas a district with one constituency is allocated the same number of slots and many other things which are actually beneficial to the constituency. This is besides having one District Commissioner for the same constituency. I am raising this concern because I know that if this House can approve this Motion, I am very sure that this country will develop very fast because we love the citizens of this country. Every President swears in this House that they will be fair to the citizens of this country and will distribute resources equitably and without discrimination. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, right from the Kenyatta regime to Moi's and to the current President Kibaki's era, districts are just dished out through street pronouncements. If a President likes a specific place, he just announces: \"Today, I give you a district\", and it is given. We want a situation where this House controls such things. I intend to bring a Bill to this House which will ensure that for a district to be created, it must be subject to the law. It has to be backed by the law. Likewise, if a district is to be abolished or its boundaries reviewed, it should be done in accordance with an Act of Parliament. After Independence, the Jomo Kenyatta Government, Moi Government and even President Kibaki's Government, have played lip-service when it comes to having a legal basis for these districts. There is no legal basis on the same and even in the creation of new ones. The illegality of dispensing financial resources even to non-gazetted districts makes this Government wanting. We must rise above board and have in place legal mechanisms that will not undermine whatever good Kenyans expect to get in services and leadership from a democratically elected Government. The political development in this country puts---"
}