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    "id": 603498,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/603498/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ganya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Francis Chachu Ganya",
        "slug": "francis-ganya"
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I will rephrase it. I am concerned and feel disappointed to a degree when citizens can distort information and have undue advantage over others because they are overrepresented and are getting more resources from our national coffers. As a result, other regions are lagging behind and are unable to get their rightful share. If that census had not been distorted, the people of North Horr would have a second constituency. Our Constitution says that Kenya shall have 290 constituencies. Until we amend Article 89 of our Constitution, it will forever remain that way. Eventually, we are going to lose this constituency because this is the only Constitution where there are formulas. These formulas argue that we should have the total number of population and divide it by the total number of constituencies. As a result, some of us have protected constituencies which should not be the case if accurate data or census figures were used during that census. I hope Hon. Nyokabi will come up with an amendment to ensure that citizens who deliberately give false information to the State to distort the national planning process are penalised."
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