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    "id": 779503,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Leader of Majority",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Motion with the necessary amendments I am going to suggest. This is a very important Bill which is resolving a problem bedeviling the counties. I have consulted the mover, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo jnr. and there are certain thoughts I want to put forth. From the onset, it is one of those areas in the Constitution that when it was drafted they overlooked the review or resolution of conflicts that are related to boundaries of counties. The current counties are part of the districts that existed in 1992. Next to this Bill is what we call the boundaries including coordinates of various parts of our counties. This is important because at the moment, we have problems related to conflict and I am sure the mover was inspired by the conflict between Machakos and Makueni County as to whether Konza City was in Machakos or Makueni. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when the Constitution was being made according to the report from Naivasha, the decision to having 47 counties was arrived at after a lot of discussion as to what were viable entities to become regions. The initial proposal was to have eight regions and then it moved to 14 regions. Then people would not agree whether Nakuru should be in the Central Rift, North Rift or South Rift. There were some discussions as to whether the Ukambani region which was the Eastern region that time in the provinces was going to be divided into two or part of it should go with your county, Tharaka Nithi, Meru, Isiolo and Embu. In fact, when I was moving the Urban Areas and Cities (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bills No.4 of 2017) I dared say that it was a mistake to make Nairobi a County. All over the world, Washington DC, where the students who were here and their professors came from, was delimited as a District of Columbia for the purpose of creating the headquarters of the United States of America which, although has 50 states, created a headquarters for the purpose of running the State. Consequently, if you go to Washington DC, although they complain that they are being taxed without representation, the wisdom behind the creation of the District of The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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