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    "id": 443942,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kihagi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Karanja Kihagi",
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    "content": "On a point of order, hon. Speaker. I totally agree with the Committee and also your ruling. This is because one shock for the people of North Karati and New Karati when the new boundaries were created was the realization that they had been placed in Gilgil Constituency. As the Committee says, these people would have to first get into a matatu, go to Naivasha Town, and then board another one to Gilgil, a distance of almost 60 kilometers to access a basic service. These people have actually been saying that an injustice was done to them and they are very happy to be served in Naivasha Constituency. I was born in North Karati and that is where even my local primary school is. The IEBC just came up with an arbitrary boundary of the road heading to Kinangop and said on the right is Naivasha and on the left is Gilgil. Actually, they have been contemplating bringing a petition but we have been telling them, as is guided that in another eight years, we are going to have a review of these boundaries. When you think of Naivasha Constituency, which is largely rural but also urban with a population of 240,000 against the population quarter of 160,000, you find it is also an injustice. So, I will be willing to sit with hon. Mathenge, together with the Committee and see if there are certain difficulties there and we can work it out with the county government as brothers. I normally remind him that constituency wise, he is my younger brother. If a petition is going to come here, it will be by the people of North Karati, whose settlement scheme was divided into two and they were placed in different constituencies. They should be brought back to Naivasha."
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