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    "content": "those of the lake region have gone into the lake basin and those of Mount Kenya into the Mount Kenya. These counties are good, but they are too small economically that they should come together to make economically viable units. It is for this reason that I propose, even if I annoy a few Kenyans, that I signal a conversation. I propose that we merge some of these counties to this extent. All the counties in the former western province are merged to create only two counties. All the counties in the former Nyanza region be merged to create only two counties in Nyanza. All the current counties in the former Coast Province be merged to create only two counties in coast and the current counties in the Rift Valley be merged to create only two counties. All the counties in the former Eastern Province be merged to create only two counties and all the counties in North Eastern be merged to create only one county so that we have a total of 14 counties. South Africa with a bigger population than ours has got nine National Council of Provinces (NCOP). India with a population running into billions of people has got nine units of devolution. I propose we have 14 counties where you will have serious governments to run the affairs of a devolved system is economically viable. If you go further, this joke of having a high school in the National Assembly whose population is equal to that of Malinya Girls Secondary School, even in this school the teacher cannot control it; they have to divide it into Form One up to Form Four for them to be handled separately. There is no debate that goes on in the National Assembly; a Member is allowed to speak for two minutes. What can you conclude in two minutes? Here, we discharge seriously because we are few. One can do a debate of 10 to 15 minutes and sometimes 30 minutes or one hour. Madam Temporary Speaker, we therefore, have to reduce the constituencies from 290 to 210. The wards in the new structure of 14 counties, each county assembly to have an equal number of Members of County Assembly (MCAs), that is 60; those will be a total of 840. On the issue of commissions, we need to reduce the number of commissioners and commissions so that those which are overlapping can be mapped. Those commissions are very expensive. Then we do not make them commissions that run on a full time basis. They should sit on a need basis and then we define in law, the sitting allowance. There is no reason why commissioners sit and get a sitting allowance of 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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