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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Foreign Affairs",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I want to laud hon. Khalwale for pointing out the constitutional provision. You may recall that we have been accused out there by the media for sometimes passing laws without exercising due care. I know, right from Naivasha, that the philosophy behind the 47 counties was based on a historical fact that the districts that were there at a certain period in time will form the counties. There was never an intention to alter any of those boundaries and we should not, in any amendments in this Parliament, alter even an inch of the county boundaries as they were at the 47 period. Any direction of that nature will have to follow the constitutional provisions which we cannot do even now because we do not have a Senate in place to do what they are empowered to do by the Constitution. So, if the amendment is seeking to alter a boundary of a county, then it is incompetent to the extent that it violates the provisions of the Constitution."
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