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    "id": 474876,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Abongotum",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 165,
        "legal_name": "Asman Abongutum Kamama",
        "slug": "asman-kamama"
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    "content": "On the issue raised by my good friend from Meru about gazettement of areas, we all know that there are certain constituencies that have not been gazetted. That is an issue that has to be dealt with at some stage. Gazettment is, of course, done by the Ministry of Interior and Co-ordination of National Government. As a Committee, we will advise the Minister to actually expedite the gazettment of constituencies that have not been gazetted. As he said, two constituencies were lumped together and when you compare the number--- If they got 25 and one other constituency got the same number then you know they actually lost as a constituency. We will address that. On the issue of timing, we got reports that in some areas recruitment went on up to 2. 00 p.m. Others are talking about 4.00 a.m. Really, it should not be like that. In future we will advise that they do it within two days. This is because after midnight you do not know what may transpire. A lot of things can happen at night. We will advise that they have two days to prosecute this. In future we will ensure that this is done. Hon. Serem wanted to know about a few of his locations that were left out. We will also talk to the Commission to see the areas that were left out. I hope those areas had people who were qualified. If there were people who are qualified then we should be able to address that. Normally, during a recruitment exercise, every division is given its quota. A division will then divide itself into locations and every location is supposed to have its quota. That should be addressed by the Commission when we meet them. Dr. Eseli talked of the formula that was used. Even for me, I think there were variations and people complained that they were not sure about the formula that was used. We want to know what formula was used to give a place like---"
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