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    "id": 268663,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Shitanda",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Housing",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Peter Soita Shitanda",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT, the Motion be amended by deleting the full stop at the end and inserting the following words: (i) “Subject to the inclusion that the following sub-locations be moved from Chimuche Ward to South Kabras Ward” 1. Mukhonje Sub location 2. Mutingongo Sub location (ii) “That the following wards be moved from Navakholo Constituency to Lurambi Constituency: 1. Ingotse Matiha Ward 2. Shinoyi Shikomari, Esumeiya Ward In moving this amendment, under Item No.1, the two sub-locations together with two other sub-locations fall under one administrative unit which means that by putting them under Chimuche Ward, they divide the location to fall under two wards. This amendment seeks to put the two sub-locations together with the two counterpart sub locations in one ward and in one location. Under Item No.2, the two wards administratively, also fall under the Kakamega Central District but as proposed in the Report, they have been put in a different administrative district which is Navakholo. We are trying to put them back to the district where they belong. At the same time, the two wards belong to the Batsoso Clan who had been put together with the Banyala whose cultural practices are totally different. In fact, during circumcision, the Banyala normally face east while the Batsoso face west when they are being circumcised, plus many other cultural issues that are not compatible in many ways. As we deliberate this Report, maybe it is worthwhile noting that if the IEBC had gone out and listened to most of the views they were given out there and acted in accordance with the wishes of many Kenyans, maybe we would not be sitting here making these amendments. Commissions should be informed that when they are given a"
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