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    "id": 1011762,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kasanga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Sylvia Mueni Kasanga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity, and I want to congratulate this Committee. Thank you, Senate Majority Leader. Consideration of instruments like this is so critical. In fact, we have a situation in one of our committees, where this same Ministry went ahead and rolled out some regulations without proper public participation, and it has taken a fraternity of stakeholders to bring it to the attention of this House. As a result, we have been forced to actually have the Ministry withdraw those regulations because of lack of proper public participation. I want to commend this Committee. I have seen from the Motion here that they have asked for further clarification and questions from the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning. I commend them for this because this particular project has a lot of interest. Many Kenyans want to participate in this project. We are very keen on this one and Kenyans are also watching. It is important that the Ministry comes clean on everything to do with this land which is going to be quite a project in Nairobi. In fact, it is something we are really looking forward to because it is a sort of urban renewal. We need a new and green city in the sun. We have seen the masterplans and where they want to go. However, it is very critical that everything is done with a lot of transparency and openness. This is the sort of thing we are calling out; that even when the developments begin to roll out because we are aware that the calls for tenders have already gone out, we hope that a lot of transparency will take place and many Kenyans will be allowed to participate in this sort of project that can change the lives of very many Kenyans and our small businesses right now that have been greatly affected because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This could be a lifeline if it is done properly. I commend this Committee and agree that they should be given ample time because of the magnitude of this project that we know. Let them thrash it out completely. We look forward to see their final report, and more importantly, that the regulations are a proper representation of what Kenyans want to benefit Kenyans; most importantly, that the Ministry will do things with a lot of openness and transparency. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support the Motion."
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