{"id":716359,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/716359/?format=json","text_counter":191,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Murkomen","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":440,"legal_name":"Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen","slug":"kipchumba-murkomen"},"content":"Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is a pity that my colleague has mis- educated the public. Either by qualification or otherwise, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. is not qualified to educate me. He has confirmed that from his submissions. Let us get it right. Neither the Senate nor the National Assembly has a responsibility on delimitation of boundaries. The County Governments Act, which I helped draft, makes it very clear that the Senate can play a role to say that we need 1450 wards like we proposed then and passed by Parliament. However, we have no role to go and say that the ward should be like this. The Constitution removed that responsibility from the National Assembly or the Senate. My correction to Sen. Orengo was specific. Not just running around the question of whether a Bill concerns counties or Article 188 that Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. is talking about in so far as the delimitation of counties which the Constitution says we must pass in the Senate and the National Assembly by two-thirds. That is specific. The Constitution in Article 89 does not give us roles to deal with delimitation of wards and constituencies whether it is this House or the National Assembly. That is contained in the Constitution, which is the law; it cannot be changed by rhetoric and repetitions."}