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    "id": 439155,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Abdirahman",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 161,
        "legal_name": "Abdirahman Ali Hassan",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for allowing me to add my voice to this very important Bill. Just like my colleagues, I want to point out that this is very important and crucial Bill determining or doing a definite determination on where the headquarters will be. It is very important also for us to understand what the factors that determine the location of the headquarters of a county government are like the centrality bit of it in terms of location. What is the population like? Many a times in the past, people have created districts where services could not even be accessible in very small areas and, probably, a few people would want to have those kinds of cases. We have heard quite often from the voice of the Senator for Nyandarua about the location of his headquarters. He now has problems because there were no facilities that were put up in these places, and it was done elsewhere. So, it will be important to do a definite determination of where the locations of these headquarters will be for the provision of services. It will also be important for good planning and it will be important for the cohesiveness in the communities that live in these areas. However, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want us to note the current challenges we face. The challenges include the fact that there has been confusion all through on the manner in which subsequent boundary commissions have actually aligned our constituencies in one way or the other. Beyond the boundary commissions, the Office of the President similarly had put Kenyans in a state of confusion in the manner in which they had marked district or divisional boundaries. You will find that the political boundaries are not aligned to the administrative boundaries. These are precautions we need to then as we determine the location of these headquarters because that is going to be what will bring in resistance from communities as we go out to consult. 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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