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    "content": "others will gain. This issue can be very emotive, as we saw in the case of Baringo, Turkana and West Pokot counties. We should be very careful about how set up this commission. Madam Temporary Speaker, a commission must be set because it is part of our mandate, under Article 188 of the Constitution. But in doing so we should be very careful how we set the terms and what kind of boundaries they will be setting, so that we do not have political gerrymandering. We should guard against politicians deciding that because the boundaries will help them get more assets or resources for their counties, they should intervene. It has been alleged that there are boundary disputes between Kisii County and Nyamira County. But I want to state that we do not have a dispute with Nyamira County. We are one people and what is in the Press is merely political gerrymandering. When we have such issues within our counties we meet as elders and resolve our disputes. Therefore, we should not take the Kisii/Nyamira matter as one of the reasons for setting up a Commission to discuss boundaries. However, where there are problems in other counties, we can discuss them and set up a commission to address those issues. Madam Temporary Speaker, finally, if we intend to set up this commission, we need to talk about fairness in how these boundaries are set about, so that we do not have issues of internal and armed conflict in this country. As you are aware, this can be serious. Let me repeat that we should be very careful if we are going to set up a commission that will be looking at boundaries, because of new resources coming in, economic build up within counties and political reasons. We should not set up a commission that can set this country into more bloodshed. I support."
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