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    "id": 268103,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ruteere",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Silas Muriuki Ruteere",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I stand here to support the Report in as far as the allocation of wards in Meru County is concerned. There was a memorandum that was presented to the Committee that Kibirichia Ward moves from Central Imenti and goes to Buri. I appreciate that the Committee did consider all the facts that Buri as it stands is twice the size of Central Imenti and, therefore, Central Imenti did not have the basis of annexing part of its constituency to Buri. Buri is 981 square kilometers and Central Imenti is 438 square kilometers. Therefore, removing part of Central Imenti to Buri would have made Buri to have 1,088 square kilometers and Central Imenti to be left with 331.8 square kilometers. The population of Buri meets the threshold of the population quota necessary. It has 399,000 people. Central Imenti has 441,000 people. If they removed Kibirichia from there, it would have made Central Imenti to have less number of people compared to Buri. Mr. Speaker, Sir, North Imenti has always been big enough to be divided into two. The way the IEBC suggested that North Imenti be divided into two, with five wards in North Imenti Constituency and four wards in Buuri Constituency is what the Committee has upheld. I support their position. We do not want to have unnecessary tensions by bringing Kibirichia to Buuri."
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