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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Michuki",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Administration and National Security",
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        "legal_name": "John Njoroge Michuki",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me address the concerns expressed by Mr. Muite by first of all, confirming to him that the Government has no intention of creating additional provinces. If there have been any discussions of that kind, it is more of speculation than a factual situation. Secondly, on the creation of districts, Mr. Muite is proposing that we pass the law and then create the districts. But the districts come from the wishes of the people. Therefore, people must consult before the creation of new districts. That is what we have done so far. We are still in that process because there are certain areas where, when we started that process to respond to the requests that were made to His Excellency the President as he toured this country, we mandated the leadership of the affected areas to meet and agree on three issues. The first one was on the boundary. The leadership in the area should agree on the boundary of the new districts. Secondly, the leadership was to agree on where the headquarters of that district would be. Thirdly, they also had to come up with the name of the new district. We have reiterated that over and over again. Those who thought that we will enter into debate on those three matters already know that my answer is no! It is them who must decide. We do not want to impose anything on the new districts. Therefore, after the intention to create the new districts was expressed in the official gazette, those consultations started. At the same time, Government official surveyors embarked on tracing those boundaries as determined by the local leadership. I want to confirm to this House that almost 95 per cent of that survey work has been carried out. Since we want to prepare a Bill that embraces all the districts and bring it to this House--- In order to deal with the Provinces and Districts Act of 1992 that requires to be amended to include a schedule of new districts, I ask this House to be patient. The Attorney-General is already looking at the Bill. Thank you."
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