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    "id": 75183,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Nuh",
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        "legal_name": "Nuh Nassir Abdi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I will abide by your guidance. While I laud your ruling, but I think it would be worthwhile to note that Dr. Khalwale in requesting for your guidance on the issue of delimitation of boundaries, seems to have read the Constitution selectively. While the Deputy Leader of Government Business responds to the urgency, and we all as Kenyans know the urgency of the Independent Interim Boundaries Review Commission and the gazettment of the constituencies in earnest is required, but I think it would be worthwhile to inform Kenyans that all is not lost. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Article 89 (1) says that there shall be 290 constituencies for the purposes of the elections of the Members of the National Assembly provided for in Article 97 (1) (a). Going by this Article, it does not require any more powers to be given to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) for the formation of any new constituency. The 290 constituencies in this country are guaranteed by the Constitution. What will have to be done by the IEBC will just be to delineate the boundaries and to give names to those 290 constituencies. While we discern and know the urgency of the matter, I think it will be worthwhile for the Deputy Leader of Government Business to inform Kenyans that it is not all lost and that any commission that will come after the IIBRC will still carry on with the work of Ligale."
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