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    "id": 74867,
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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I want to thank you for rising to the urgency and forestalling a possible crisis, if by midnight tonight we do not achieve the approval of the names of the chairs and commissioners to the two commissions. My point of order, is this: How do you intend, using the same powers vested in you, to save yet another crisis, the crisis in the Interim Independent Boundaries Review Commission? Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want you to allow me, with all due respect, to refer to Article 89 of the Constitution of Kenya. Article 89(2) says that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission which will succeed the IIBRC will not be able to touch constituencies until after eight to 12 years. This means that if we allow this new Commission to succeed the IIBRC, Kenyans will have to wait for ten to 14 years before they get a new constituency. More disastrous is Article 89(8) which says that the Commission can only alter the boundaries of constituencies, names of constituencies and the number of wards. The new commission will not have any power to create new constituencies. If again you do not rise to this occasion it, therefore, means that Kenyans will not only wait for those many years, but even when the time comes the new commission will not have power, under the law, to create additional constituencies. Kindly guide the House."
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