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    "content": "of life and livelihoods will continue to happen. Discrimination will continue to happen, while run away from our obligations as a people. This is a House of reason which has people who have had so much experience in this country. It has people who have even led the people in the areas that they represent for a very long time and have lived to see this problem for a very long time. I believe that this issue is in the right House, so that once and for all we can tackle it and save lives and livelihoods of our people. Madam Temporary Speaker, secondly, major projects which would have moved this country into another economic lifeline have stalled. They have been stopped because of the issue of boundaries. Look at Konza City, for example. We know that the issue of the boundary is one of the reasons or hindrance why it has not taken off. We also know of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) project as well. There was an issue about the boundary in it. We also know that it can continue to become an excuse. It is very easy to continue to use the issue of boundaries so as not to progress as a country. I must thank Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. for coming up with this Motion, so that we can tackle this issue once and for all. We have also the influence of boundaries in terms of even service delivery. We know from the time we had the Ligale Commission and also the IEBC, that boundaries have an inclination also on issues to do with the electoral process and even where the polling stations are located in the counties. There are people who are in one county but have to get services in another county. So, you will get even some of the leaders saying that: “Why should we serve them and yet they are not in this county?” I think that they should go hand in hand, so that we are clear on issues of electoral boundaries and the boundaries of our counties, so that we can sort our these issues once and for all. Madam Temporary Speaker, I would also like to talk about the issues of being certain once and for all. You will get community members carrying maps of 1900s telling you: “Before my grandfather was born, this is where the boundary was.” I think that this is the right time, especially now that we are breathing life into this Constitution. As a Parliament we are going to breathe life and be courageous enough to live to the aspirations of Kenyans when they passed this Constitution in 2010. It is time we sorted these issues once and for all. We should not live in fear by saying that if we start, the people are going to complain. Our not doing has also not been doing us any good. We would rather be bold enough and tackle it once and for all and see how we are actually going to solve these problems that have been bedeviling us. It is even unfortunate to see leaders discussing whether or not, for example, Nyahururu is in Nyandarua, where the President has gone to officiate a very important function. We are left bickering over where a boundary is at such an important function. I think that as a country, in this century, that is not the right thing to do. I also agree with Sen. Ong’era that when the time comes, when we will have to cross the bridge, even in constituting the commission--- I think that it is time as Kenyans, and people who hold offices, to think of posterity and this country beyond us and the mandate that you have been given at that particular time. This is because your great grand children will still be in this country. This country belongs to all of us. 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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