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    "id": 406405,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Muriuki Ngare",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I stand to second this Motion. As we all know, the Constitution came with quite a big overhaul of the way we knew things before and among them the creation of devolved governments in the name of the 47 counties. In their wisdom, the Committee of Experts in establishing the boundaries of the 47 counties followed the boundaries of the districts as they were in 1991. In their wisdom, Kenyans also accepted that position. After that, the position is that the counties which were districts by then had their normal establishment. They had the Provincial Administration, the Municipal Council and the County Councils. When the county government system came in, they inherited those facilities all except three counties as the Mover has said. In the case of Nyandarua, the situation was as follows: The then district of Nyandarua had always had its headquarters at a place called Ol Kalou in name. There are no buildings there. It is just an empty ground to be built later on. When it came to the time of building the district headquarters sometimes in the 1960s, somehow the people who were in the Government went and built it in a town which was by then in Laikipia District but at the border between Nyandarua and Laikipia District, but on the side of Laikipia. All the facilities like the offices of the Provincial Administration, the hospital, the court and all the Ministry offices were put up in Nyahururu Town and all the time it was outside the Nyandarua District and, therefore, we inherited a situation where the town where we used to go and see the District Commissioner is now in another county. That means that we must build our headquarters at Ol Kalou Town from scratch. There are no Government offices there and the town does not have piped water and a sewerage system. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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