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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Munya",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for East African Community",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Konzolo Munyao",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I think this is a very timely and important Motion because we are in the transition to the new Constitution. It would be very unfair if we were to use old statistics to allocate money to the counties. These are old statistics that have even been discredited. They have also been challenged. Experts have looked into them and said they were not properly collected. Therefore, it is incumbent upon the Government at this particular juncture before it is too late, to collect the right statistics, so that we can have proper allocation of resources. If you use old statistics that are not credible then, obviously, what you will have is a misallocation of resources. We will be doing an injustice to the people of this Republic if we were to use statistics that are not credible. I am, therefore, very strongly supporting this Motion. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is not just statistics for poverty survey. This covers even issues of boundaries. Remember the census that was done that, again, was controversial. Even the Ministry itself admitted that certain figures that were picked in certain areas were not correct; they were exaggerated. Money was allocated for a proper census to be done so that the correct population figures could be taken from those constituencies. We are still surprised that the Government is still dilly dallying, not picking the proper statistics for those areas to be able to correct the errors that were done. It will, again, be an injustice if those figures that were exaggerated were used to delineate boundaries for new constituencies. What that will mean is that certain areas will have excess constituencies in relation to other areas. Therefore, some areas will have more resources than others. Again, it will be an injustice to this Republic where we are saying we use the proper statistics, so that people could get the correct allocation that they deserve. Therefore, I think we are using this Motion to urge the Ministry of Planning, National Development and Vision 2030 to expeditiously allocate money and do the poverty surveys. At the same time, we are also using the money that it was given to correct the census results in those areas that the census was not properly done, so that the correction can be done. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you may find certain Kenyans going to court, again, if the electoral commission were to go ahead and delineate constituencies on the basis of wrong population figures. People will go to court. That will be very bad because it will mean, again, delaying the process of creating new constituencies. It will be their right to go to court if the Ministry itself said these figures that were picked were"
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