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    "id": 248060,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/248060/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Githae",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Transport",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Robinson Njeru Githae",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, that is exactly what I have said; that the President gave an intention to create districts. So, what we now need to do is to ask the Government to hasten the process of validating all those districts. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would also like to disagree with my friend, Mr. Munya, when he said that there are political districts. There are no political districts. A district is a district; whether it is small or big. I think we need to make that very clear. Last week, I was in Malaba. If you ask the people of Teso to abolish the Teso District, they threaten to go to Uganda. Who are we to say that the people of Teso or Ijara should not have a district? In any case, these districts are already there. So, it is only good that we ask the Government to hasten the process of validating those districts, including the new ones. In fact, this will even give the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) time to create more constituencies. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the reason why people are now clamouring for districts is because they have seen that whenever a new district is created, the ECK gives it one or two more constituencies. With the introduction of the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF), people want more constituencies, but they cannot get them unless there is a district. The Government needs to finalise the process so that the new districts can be validated."
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