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    "id": 779547,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support this Bill from the onset because it addresses an area of concern. We already have disputes with boundaries of counties and there has been no mechanism of sorting it out. As it has been said, Article 6 sets out that the 47 counties are what is recognized as being the divisions into which the territory of Kenya is made. I have been looking at that Districts and Provinces Act and I used to wonder how it was established. I am surprised and happy to know that it was Sen. Wako who did it. I was telling him that there were a lot of injustices in the boundaries Act itself. Since, the colonialists used to tell people where the boundaries were and everybody knew it. Nevertheless, this is somebody who went with cartographers and came up with beacons where you cannot imagine; what we used to know as riverbeds and all that. Now we have boundaries going over mountains. We need to go back and correct from the colonial boundaries of 1963.That is the starting point and we have to go in after establishing this Bill into an Act. I thank Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. for coming up with this process. If you check Clause 18; ‘A Petition to Parliament’, that should be “to the Senate”. We have to be very clear on where the Petition starts. It should come to the Senate, then the Senate should come up with a special Committee. This committee will then come up with a report which will either say it goes to mediation or alteration. That is where the National 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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