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    "id": 268810,
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 149,
        "legal_name": "Clement Muchiri Wambugu",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I stand to second the amendment by Mr. Mwangi. It is indeed so that the two documents, the map and the other explanation were not in agreement. That is why we were asking for that amendment so that Gikindu/Kimathi Ward may be included. That was one of our recommendations that we do not have any form of adjustment within that county. It is good for the record to say that as people from Murang’a County, we had requested for an extra constituency which could take care of Kiharu which is one of the biggest constituencies in this country but unfortunately, that request was not granted. We will live with that. When I come to a place called Mathioya, where I come from, though there is a recommendation on Mathioya Constituency on page 25 of the Report of the Committee, if the IEBC could have listened carefully to the request by the constituency and the other people who were giving their presentations, most of the wards that we are handling here could have been handled then. For example, in Mathioya, they had requested earlier the four wards based on the four divisions. But unfortunately, within the first review, they had cleared off one ward called Gituki. That brought a lot of tension and there was a lot of fighting. Thereafter, in the second review which is coming in the preliminary, they disregarded and cleared off another area called Jombi which brought a lot of tension. Let me commend the Parliamentary Committee because of looking into our---"
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