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    "id": 248077,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Poghisio",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 202,
        "legal_name": "Samuel Losuron Poghisio",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the unfair thing about the Provincial Adminstration is that when Mr. Wetangula gets a district, the DC will tour the whole district in six hours. The DCs for Turkana, Marsabit and West Pokot will take six days to go round their districts. Some of them will take a week. It is unfair because that will happen in the former Bungoma District. Let us not distribute these districts on the basis of who is who. Let us rationalise them. It is unfair if Kacheliba Constituency is not considered as a special district. One day when I will sit in the Government side, we may decide that the politically-created new districts are nullified. Rationally, why would you create a new district in a place that is already very small? Western Province is smaller than one district in--- Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am saying this on the basis of the law that is being amended. Such a law does not exist. We should come up with an Act that covers the creation of new districts. It should state that West Pokot District stretches from this to that place. I would like to see those beacons, so that we do not have conflicts. Right now, there is a conflict between the Pokot and the Turkana because in one place called \"Lorogon\", there is a chief from West Pokot District and another one from Turkana District. This is because nobody knows whose land it is. The Government pays those chiefs. That is how interesting the issue is. The Government does not know what is happening. The right hand does not know what the left does. So, those chiefs are being paid by the Government. There are places along that border which are in West Pokot District but are staffed by people from Turkana District. So, we would like the amendments to the Act to create a conducive environment so that we do not go to war with each other and know where we belong. Finally, I would like to urge the hon. Member to find the appropriate law to amend so that we do not deal with things that have been removed. When I looked at the table of contents, I found that these things were removed from the laws of Kenya. So, which law will we amend? Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to support the Motion."
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