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    "id": 262608,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/262608/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Laboso",
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        "legal_name": "Joyce Cherono Laboso",
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    "content": "I want to speak a little bit on Article 27 which talks about the number of wards. I think even as we will soon be debating the question on boundaries, it is already imagined that this number of 1,450 which has been expressly stated in Article 27 is, probably, not adequate. I appreciate the fact that we are looking for a leaner assembly. We are also looking at a better remunerated assembly. We are looking at, probably, attracting a higher calibre of aspirants for those positions. However, those numbers may not be tenable. I am looking at the example of my own constituency where there is a ward that is up to 40,000 people. This is when the average you are thinking of is somewhere around 30,000. So there will be a lot of disparities in terms of the number of people that will be administered under each of those wards. Further, in the creation of some of these wards, again, I am looking at a lot of conflicts that will emanate because of moving one sub-location into another. This will take some time for people to agree, especially those who have already been aggrieved. I know in my own constituency, one sub-location is feeling particularly aggrieved by having been moved from one ward to another. That is Chepkeige in Ndanai Ward. In fact, residents in that ward are up in arms and threatening to demonstrate. They are not just threatening, but they are actually going to demonstrate for being moved to a different ward."
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