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    "id": 1037210,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13131,
        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Kshs25 billion. We passed the Sectional Properties law, that if you have improved a piece of land and you have built apartments each of them is going to pay the correct rate they are supposed to pay. The revenue of Nairobi County has the potential of going to Kshs100 billion and we will sort out our problems. Part of the reason I have worked with BBI is that they have acknowledged that given a second chance and resources and right leadership Nairobi County can be governed properly. Initially, before we amended the BBI report, it was solving a temporary problem, that of Hon. Sonko and Hon. Kidero with a permanent solution of removing devolution from Nairobians who will still have the right. We were born in Nairobi; I was born 2.3 kilometers from here. My county is Nairobi. If you tell me to look for devolution elsewhere, I do not know any other place. I speak English and Swahili and six languages because all my neighbors are from all communities. This is our home and we have the same right to devolution as the people in Kisii, Narok and Kilifi. Sen. Olekina has spoken about Article 203 and I want to advise him. We will have a basketball tournament. We have agreed to do a one on one challenge and I will defeat him. Even as we do that, Article 203 that is being proposed in the BBI is impractical but there should be no fear. When you talk about per capita capped by three times, if you remove the amount from those that go beyond three and redistribute it, it gives you what we call in Mathematics, a cyclic error. This is because the amount you will redistribute will be three times of that per capita. It is an aspirational clause. As you do it, try and reduce the per capita discrepancy, which is what we appeal. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for instance, Nairobi County has been getting Kshs3000 per capita. One Nairobian gets Kshs3000, while one person in Lamu gets Kshs20,000. We want to move towards a better per capita. The variance should not be as wide, but we cannot put it to be three times more. The long and short of it is that, despite the fact that we support a proposal that will bring us together--- As I finish, let me say that the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) is not a perfect document. The only perfect document is the Bible. However, every generation must do what it must to actually advance or progress our unity as Kenyans. Right now, it is not perfect, but it is the best thing that we can do for the unity of this country. The next generation and the next Parliament will have an opportunity to improve on it. We cannot waste and squander this opportunity for a united Kenya. That is why we support the BBI- --"
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