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    "content": "They used power. When they went to the ground, it resulted in deaths of people. Why? Because when I challenged that Motion, the initial intention, they said then, was that there was no dispute between Meru and Isiolo and that all they were going to do was to place beacons. That is already a dispute. The minute you place the beacons, that is where the dispute begins. This legislation provides a very nice method of doing these things where we will involve both Houses. I am hoping that it can find itself into law so that by the time we come into the next Senate, we can have county boundaries clearly defined. Part two of the Bill is on County Boundaries. Clause 3 states Article 6(1) of the Constitution provides for 47 counties and their boundaries are set out in the First Schedule to this Act. It is fairly straight forward. Clause 4 says as follows: “The Cabinet Secretary shall keep and shall upon request by any person make available an up to date electronic record of the boundaries of counties.” Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in portions of some counties, if you read you will find that the beacons are the Global Positioning System ( GPS ) coding. For example, Kisumu County on page 353, of this Bill, you see beacons in GPS coding. We anticipate that in an attempt to be a digital nation, our boundaries will be electronically retrievable as opposed to what we do in Makueni when we want to determine boundary disputes where we buy sisal, tell a person to stand on the other side, another on the opposite side and then draw a straight line on the ground. We want to walk away from those archaic methods of doing boundaries by planting sisal or doing walls. We want boundaries to be imaginary lines on the ground. As the Senator for West Pokot County, you ought to be able to retrieve its map by GPS coding while seated where you are is. In Konza City, for example, you can now retrieve a parcel of land while seated right here on your phone by just getting the GPS coding. The anticipation is that at some point this country is going to digitize mapping and the boundaries so that we do not use a river as a boundary because it can change its course. Roads and railway lines can change. Let us avoid using them to determine our county boundaries. I spoke about the railway line between Makueni and Kajiado. There is now the SGR so you wonder whether the boundary has changed. Others have used streams which have changed course. Others have used posts which have been removed. Others have used many other methods and those things have changed. I hope that this nation can get to that level where even your own title or your own"
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