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    "content": "constituency would get more than Kshs1 billion purely related to land and yet its population is less than one ward in my constituency. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am sure the hon. Members in this House would have preferred to see assimilation first; how it will work out if actually we use these figures. For example, is one constituency on land mass alone going to get Kshs1 billion more than the 60 odd constituencies in Nyanza and Western Province? I think that is an issue that we need to look at. The second issue is: Where do the boundaries of the constituencies or the counties end? You heard Mrs. Odhiambo-Mabona talk about the lake. Constituency boundaries extend right into the middle of the lake because they must, for example, touch the Uganda border. The UN law of the sea proposed 200 nautical miles from the coast of any country that borders the ocean. So, are the constituencies in Coast Province going to claim that as the land mass? Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, some lakes, like Lake Turkana, are very large. They are larger than some small provinces. How do you treat that when you are calculating land mass? Then we come to the issue of fiscal discipline, the 2 per cent. What are the parameters? I did not hear the parameters spelt out for determining fiscal discipline. I wish to call upon the Committee to do assimilation before we pass this law because once a constituency knows it will get Kshs1 billion and we come here and try to change it afterwards, I think we will have a very big problem. I am not opposed to the Motion per se, but I want to beg that the proposer moves that we adjourn and they do assimilation model before we conclude it. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is easier to correct this now, than to correct it after the Motion is passed. On the issue about the poverty index, this is an area which is also very controversial. If you accept the social notion that jigger-infested areas are the poorest areas in any society, then you must conclude that areas in Murang’a are much poorer than areas that do not have jiggers and yet the billionaires from Murang’a are many. Is that a fair judgement that they should be allocated less? With those few remarks, I beg to request that this Motion be moved forward."
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