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    "id": 268099,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. A. Abdalla",
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        "legal_name": "Amina Ali Abdalla",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the interest of a Member of Parliament is to present views. It is in your job description to represent interest. Therefore, I am not going to declare my interest on anything. Mr. Speaker, Sir, having said that, the new Constitution has reduced gerrymandering to the ward level. That is why you are seeing those who have missed constituencies despite their numbers such as Kinangop, Malava, Malindi and the rest, have no remedy because we have legislated in addition to the limits that have been placed in the Constitution. This Report deals with some errors and those errors must be dealt with. There are wards that are a duplicate; they have the same size and number of people. There are also errors between volume II and volume III. I want to give you an example, in volume II a sub-location in a constituency in North Eastern Province is placed in one ward called Waberi and in the maps it is shown to be in another constituency. Those kinds of errors must be corrected. Mr. Speaker, Sir, additionally the Report shows that there are some requests that have been adhered to and recommendations have been made on and others not. I want to give an example of the same constituency where the community signed a memorandum and said they wanted to go to the urban side of the constituency but they are stuck in the rural side. That example, which is in Dujis Constituency, can only be dealt with if we give the ideas we have. We intend to amend so that those ideas can be dealt with in terms of the urban nature and the community of interest. The other error that can be found in this Report is where administrative boundaries are not respected. In the process there are constituencies that have been divided into two and have two district headquarters. Those are errors that the IEBC must look into. Finally, the contentious issue here now is the proposal to increase wards. The IEBC shared with the Committee that if they were given about 30 wards to 50 wards to use discretionally, they would be able to give to the really needy cases that are not in this Report. Those needy cases are so small and so minute they would never have an opportunity to ever represent any group. For that, I want to mention the issues of the"
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