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    "id": 1074660,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "called one. If you look at the jurisdiction of Iten town itself, everybody is there only during the day. At night, there may be no more than 1000 people in Iten town. Yet, it is the county headquarters of my county. Most people live either in Eldoret or they go back to their villages. In fact, to make Iten a proper town, you have to combine it up to Tambach and you know the distance is long. We have a responsibility of approving the Nakuru Municipality application to be conferred to city status. We looked at the qualifications or the previous recommendations by our team members. In our final approval we looked at the qualifications of the Act as the chairperson has recommended. We looked at the issues like the importance of Nakuru as a city. When it becomes a city as approved by this House it will be akin to Nairobi. A city that is next to a National Park. A city that is at the centre of the country. It has also attracted people of various communities who live in it. When this House approves Nakuru to be a city, the work of making Nakuru a city begins. The minimum qualifications have just been achieved. The county government of Nakuru will have to work very hard to ensure that the infrastructure within Nakuru Town, Afraha Stadium should not just be the only stadium in Nakuru. We want to see Nakuru having five or six stadiums that can attract sports people to go and play there. Nakuru is planning - which is recommended and approved - for the establishment an airport. We want that airport to be of international standard, where farmers from the middle part of the country can export their goods. Those farmers include Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., who is a renown farmer in Nakuru County. My only interest in Nakuru is that I got a wife from Nakuru County. It will be part of the county I would call my ‘county in-law’. Therefore, because of the interest of time, and the business we have in this House, there are various challenges that Nakuru County has. One of the things they must deal with as we have captured in the report is planning. We do not want another Kibera slum or Mukuru kwa Njenga or Mathare to grow in Nakuru. Already Kaptembwa and other parts of Nakuru have slums. It is better when it is only 350,000 people that the city is properly planned so that we do not have the kind of problems we have in Nairobi. If they do not do that, by the time the population gets to one million, we will have a big problem of planning in terms of settlement in Nakuru County. The other thing that Nakuru County must put in place is uniqueness of Nakuru as a city. If you go to other cities of the world, you look at the buildings and they are unique. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you go to other cities in the world, you will see very unique buildings. We do not want to have towns that all the buildings are boxes. The county government of Nakuru must put in place a proper planning department with a clear message to all people who want to invest in Nakuru that if anyone wants to build an office block, they must come with a unique architectural design. A design that looks like a flamingo would attract people to go to Nakuru to look at the building. I am very glad that Nairobi City has established the Upper Hill and Community area where new buildings are coming up with unique designs. We do not want to have a city where all the buildings are in the shape of boxes. In Dubai City, every new building has a different design that makes that city unique. They have unique buildings that make that city attractive to those who visit."
}