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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kipyegon",
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        "legal_name": "Johana Ngeno Kipyegon",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I also wish to support. Despite the fact that we have schedules in the Constitution that talk about this matter, at times it becomes a problem where to situate the headquarters of a county. I think that decision, perhaps, would best lie with the people of those particular counties. How I wish whenever we are making any decision, we do public participation. It is the only way we can get the views of the people. We need to know from them where they wish those headquarters to be situated. Remember there have been so many conflicts. There were some conflicts in Kiambu County, where some people wanted the headquarters to be situated in Thika. There are people who wanted it to be in another place. Last week there were demonstrations in Tharaka Nithi. It is because somebody had proposed that the headquarters of this particular county be situated in a certain place. Let us have public participation and allow the people of these counties to determine where they want their headquarters to be, so that we do not force them to have unnecessary conflicts. Remember most of the counties are cosmopolitan. We have several clans, tribes and communities living in those counties and sometimes when you place county headquarters at a particular place, which, perhaps, favours one or two communities, the other communities will always be in conflict. So, let us do all this correctly so that we can have the county headquarters in places where it shall not favour one community. So, we need to re-look the matter. I wish to support because I am one of those few people who would have wished that the headquarters of a county are located based on several issues such as proximity to the county residents, the capability of that particular proposed headquarter in terms of economic centrality and other factors. We cannot just take county headquarters to small villages although we would want to develop them. We need to choose a place which is already developed and which can give the residents of those counties accessibility to those areas. On matters of county assemblies, I would have wished we have rotational sittings like we were impressed initially that this National Assembly would be rotating in all the regions. I do not know what happened. County assemblies do not have complicated businesses to deal with. They do not use complicated equipment during their sittings. Those ones can rotate. They could move from one constituency to another. I wish to support and we hope the people of Taita and other counties will agree with the resolution of this House."
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