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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you go through the Report of the Committee, you will see that they have just mentioned the 60 wards without explaining the formula that they used to arrive at that number. So, after we debate this Motion, this Report will go to the IEBC. It will be gazetted and anybody can go to court to challenge it. Therefore, the Members of the Committee should have given the basis for giving the 60 wards. I am saying this having in mind the fact that when the Commissioners went round the country, they got views from the public. I was personally in Kericho. There were no serious issues that were raised. We had an additional constituency called Sigawet. The name of the constituency is Sigawet, but there was a proposed amendment for it to be called “Sigawet/Soii”. With a population of 105,000, it had four wards but when the Report came from the IEBC, the five wards had been reduced to four. Mr. Speaker, Sir, a ward like Kiptere had a population of 23,652 but to my surprise, when the Report was published, it emerged that this ward was divided. Some sub-locations of this ward were relocated to other wards. A sub-location like Kiptere, with 10,400 people, was subdivided and merged with another ward called “Kaplenatet” with a population of 18,500. If you add 10,000, the population becomes 28,000 people. The balance of 13,000 people went to another ward that had 25,000 people, taking the figure of the latter ward to 38,000 people. I am saying this because if the formula is not given, the people will oppose this arrangement. Therefore, the Committee has proposed that Kiptere Ward should be retained under Sigawet Ward. It should be clear that we are not begging for this ward. It is our constitutional right to have it, because it has adequate population and the appropriate land mass. Therefore, this should be considered, based on the figures of the National Population Census Report of 2009. Mr. Speaker, Sir, therefore, the new constituency should have the following wards: Kibenet, Kiptere, Soini, Soliadi and Kaplelatet. The large constituency of Belgut will remain with five wards because it has a population of 134,000 people. It should remain with Waldai. In my submission, there was an omission of a location called"
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