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    "content": "unequal counties like Tharaka-Nithi with two constituencies, Kakamega with 13 constituencies and so on and so forth. That was a compromise. This Constitution says that a Kenyan has the right to live anywhere in this country. This Constitution also provided a safety net in Article 188 on how boundaries can be resolved. I want to urge Senators, as the defenders and protectors of counties and their governments, to advise their counties that trying to make their boundaries elastic is not going to help this country; whether today or tomorrow, it will not help this country. Even as we are trying to form a commission through a Motion brought by Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. every time I reflect on it, I think that we may end up tearing this country part. This is because each and every county is eyeing an inch or two of the next county citing historical injustices, overbearing politicians in the 1960s, colonial biases, land grabbing et cetera. Some of these things are better let to lie why they fell than be opened. This Senate owes this country more than any other institution to inform the country that anybody who has a sense in this country will tell you that the most bastardized community in terms of land and boundaries are the Maasai, but they have learnt to live where they are. If the Maasai can take it and live where they are, I do not see why everybody else should not. The Maasai occupied land up to western Kenya, Laikipia and Mombasa. Everybody is living on Maasai land. I do not think it will make any sense to anybody for the Maasais to say that these were historical injustices and that they want their land back. Let us guide the country so that we have peace, tranquility and prosperity within the confines of the current Constitution."
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