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    "content": "your ruling on this matter – that getting into this petition and prosecuting it in the usual way we do, we may be contravening the provisions of our own Constitution. I want to refer you to Article 188 which deals with altering of county boundaries, since this amounts to doing so. Article 188(1) says:- “The boundaries of a county may be altered only by a resolution— ( a ) recommended by an independent commission set up for that purpose by Parliament. That is the procedure and we cannot run away from it. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you go ahead and refer this petition to the relevant Committee, we will be going against the provisions of that Article. The solution to this problem lies in the Bill that is before this House – I think it has been published already – sponsored by Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. I understand it has been published and it should be coming to this House soon. So, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I urge you; that before you commit this petition to the relevant Committee, to look into the provisions of this article of the Constitution and ascertain that we are not going against our own constitution."
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