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    "content": "Parliament from that county are in agreement that such a request should be made, they should be allowed, and so should the county assembly be allowed to make this request. Clause 9 speaks to the composition of the committee. I have no problem with it, but do you not think that when you are appointing the mediation committee, in (b), you should signify who is nominating and appointing that person? If you look at (d), the Bill talks about the public officer nominated by the Cabinet Secretary. That is okay but there are a maximum of 22 Cabinet Secretaries. Therefore, it should specify which Cabinet Secretary. Clause 9 (2) (a), says that a person shall not be qualified for appointment under subsection (1) (a) and (b) if that person has stood for an elective office in any of the affected counties in the last ten years. I beg that this be deleted, because it is tantamount to criminalizing the profession of politics. Who says that after Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo quits serving the people of West Pokot as the Senator, he does not have the intelligence to serve in such a mediation committee? In anything, a former Senator, Member of the National Assembly or MCA is more knowledgeable on matters of that county and, therefore, stands to be a resource person in this very critical committee. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I now want to take the distinguished Senator to the Schedule. I have gone through the schedule and I am very pleased. Since I do not understand other counties as well as Kakamega County, allow me to make a few remarks on Kakamega County. A bird’s eye view on the statement made in this schedule on Kakamega County tells me that the few errors that I have noted require that before it becomes part of this Bill, a deliberate effort be made painstakingly by either the Ministry of Lands or whichever responsible Ministry to describe the official county boundaries of all counties that will be on record in detail. It is lack of that detail that opens up room for disputes. It is the presence of that detail that will abate disputes. Kakamega County borders Busia County, Bungoma County, Trans Nzoia County, Uasin Gishu County, Nandi County, Vihiga County and Siaya County. When you go through the narrative here on pages 336 to 340, the detail to capture that particular span is not clear. We need to clarify at every point. When you start at point “X,” for example, where it commences at the confluence of Namayakalo River with Nang’eni River, you need to state that now you have started describing the boundary of Kakamega County as it borders Busia County. If we do not do that, somebody trying to understand this narrative will not know whether you are describing Namayiakano River and Nang’eni River which may not be in Busia, but in some other Luhya bordering county. Some names in the Luhya nation are shared because they were named by our people when they were migrating. You will find that a name of a river might repeat itself in Busia when it is in Kakamega. It is important to know this. It is glaring because when you go to the bottom of page 37, they say hence the westerly upstream to its intersection with Yala River. When you are in Kakamega, there is no river called Yala. The river they are referring to as Yala is called Yala when it is in Siaya. This river is called River Lukose."
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