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    "content": "that has cost us forever. As a country we adhere to the contusive Act of the African Union and the forerunner protocols of 1960 of the Organisation of African Unity; that boundaries as they were in 1963 are the boundaries of every African country. Subsequently, we do not quarrel unnecessarily. Madam Temporary Speaker, you remember the case of Bakassi Peninsula between Cameroon and Nigeria. They have been quarrelling for the last 40years. Eventually, they agreed to go to The Hague. The international court awarded the territory, a small piece of strip, to Cameroon. However, the people who live there are all Nigerians, so Cameroon said you have given us but we cannot have it. Since the Nigerians living there have said ‘we do not want to be Cameroonians. Period! If this was resolved much earlier probably that problem would not be there. If today you find gold or oil in the Bakassi Peninsula, you will see the bonfire, everybody will be up in arms. That is why resolving boundaries in time; whether it is between you and your brother, between neighbours, constituencies, wards and counties is so critical. I saw somebody on TV speaking virulently about how Nyahururu must be in Laikipia. We all have grown up knowing Nyahururu to be in Nyandarua. Nevertheless, this fellow was speaking with his mouth foaming; ‘we want our town!’ it is fellows like those that go to war. He will talk like that in a drunken stupor, probably pick a stone and kill somebody and the fireball will follow. Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to encourage this House to pass this Bill and when it goes to the Committee, I will want the Committee not to rush. Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. has reproduced the detailed description of boundaries lifted from the Districts and Provinces Act which describes the boundaries, and we must salute the guys who did that survey. They would describe like the boundary of Kenya and Uganda and say ‘it ends up on Lake Victoria in the centre of the mouth of Sio River’. Not on one bank or the other, in the centre, meaning it is shared. We know on the part of Kacheliba and others, our neighbours have been destroying beacons. We need to address these things so that whatever we do, the sanctity of boundaries as we inherited and created them in an arena of sanity must be protected. May God help this country to never lose any human life because counties or constituencies or wards are quarrelling about boundaries. This Senate, after passing this Bill, must also revisit the Sen. Agnes Zani Bill on the sharing of resources. We do not want Kenya to have the same problem as the Ogonis in Nigeria where people who have protected land with oil, gold, uranium, titanium with everything below, all of a sudden, stand and watch helplessly as foreigners and their local accomplices freight away their wealth and they do not get a single share. That is when people lose hope, and a hopeless person is a dangerous person regardless of where they come from. Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to second."
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