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    "id": 333432,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. C. Onyancha",
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        "legal_name": "Charles Onyancha",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand not to support this Motion because I am a bit worried. I have looked at the proposal; the population criteria and the others, but I am more concerned about the allocation based on the land mass criteria. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, last year, we learnt from the Minister for Education when the examinations in parts of county in North Eastern Province were cancelled, there were 4,800 students who had sat for the KCPE examinations in the whole county. When you go the population census results, that county claims to have more than a million people. My constituency with some 8,000 students who sat for KCPE that same year, the population is supposed to be 114,000 people and yet the registered voters plus all the students in the constituency which is not a county, exceeds the population of 114,000 people. Therefore, unless we first get our population figures right, I do not see how we can be able to use this criteria fairly. Secondly, on the issue of land mass, I have done a simple calculation that one constituency in the north occupies about 8 per cent of the land mass of this country. It is larger than the old Nyanza Province, old Western Province and parts of the old Rift Valley put together. In essence, if you take 8 per cent of the expected first allocation, that"
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