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    "id": 550854,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I stand to express the tragedy of Kisumu County because, at this rate, the county may become non-existent. Now that there is oil that has been discovered in Kisumu, I am afraid that the distinguished Senator from Nandi may even claim kit mikayi. There are many things there. If he continues claiming them, he may be cursed. The point I am making is that there are issues about boundaries which cannot be resolved. I was representing a constituency which consists of two communities, Luos and Luhyas. If you go across to Busia in Western Province, the same issues arise. At one time, we tried to resolve the issues and we felt that if we opened a Pandora’s Box, we would never resolve the issue. I have an area in Ugenya where the community is basically Luhya. They said that they would rather remain in Siaya County. I was taking the position that they should be given their own right to declare where they want to be. We should consider boundaries as bridges and not like the wall we want to build between us and Somalia. In our Constitution, we say that we are a unitary State. The moment you try to have boundaries, these, basically, end up being ethnic boundaries. I do not know whether we want to build one nation, one people or whether we want to move past that. Having said that, the other danger I see is that in the structure of the Constitution, the final arbiter is the National Assembly and the Senate. The complaints should not be made from here. If the judge is the complainant, then there is nobody who will believe that the case will be determined properly. Even the commission will not have the powers to alter the boundaries. The boundaries can only be altered by a resolution of the Senate and the National Assembly. Therefore, I plead with you, as somebody who wants to be a Kenyan more than a Luo, let us use boundaries as bridges and not as a wall that the Jubilee Government wants to build between one friendly African nation and ourselves."
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