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    "content": "Similarly, the question of marginalised communities is tackled very well and that is why I will address it later. The threshold we have put for altering boundaries cannot go beyond this, because it might further marginalise the marginalised communities. This is because they will not be able to marshal more than enough forces. On the question of managing and sharing resources, we have resources in Turkana. If you thought we need to anchor this in law, this is the time, especially the 15 per cent threshold of moving a petition on the boundaries. Madam Temporary Speaker, if the law contemplates that 10 per cent of voters can actually move a petition to dissolve a county and send a government home, why would anybody think that a 15 per cent threshold to alter a boundary is very small? This is particularly because the boundary of counties, in most cases, will affect a very small section and not the entire county. I do not expect that it will do so. Madam Temporary Speaker, on the ad hoc Committee of forming a Commission, Article 188 does not contemplate having a permanent commission; it only contemplates a commission where there is a need, hence the reason we have proposed an ad hoc commission. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) was of the view that we should incorporate mediation in the commission. Once again, that is not possible because then the question of an ad hoc commission is defeated if the mediation must highlight the formation of that ad hoc commission. Madam Temporary Speaker, the most important reason is that we want to encourage people to talk. If the right Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga and His Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta can shake hands, then communities ought to talk before we have disputes and before we alter the boundaries. On the need to synchronise boundary issues, we are going to propose that in the alteration of Constituency Boundaries Board, that there should be synchronisation of boundary issues. We will include that in the amendments that are coming up soon. I want to dissuade Senators who think that this is the time to increase or reduce counties; it cannot happen in this Bill. That is not the reason and it will have to come through another format. The 1992 boundaries remain the threshold of counties and this cannot change unless we change the criteria that the CoE came up with. Madam Temporary Speaker, as I stated earlier, the proposed commission is ad"
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