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    "id": 1074675,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "However, we should not create cities for the sake of having them. They must change the landscape, aesthetics, and the value of life in their midst. We should be able to have a situation where anybody driving from Kericho to Nakuru sees the difference between a town and a city. Anybody driving from Naivasha to Nakuru should feel the difference between the town of Naivasha and a city. I am sure that Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., remembers this; in the old days in the UK you would not be conferred city status if you did not have a cathedral, a public library and good well managed public parks for people to recreate. Where is the Hyde Park, Central Park or City Park of Nakuru? As this status comes, greater responsibility must be bestowed on the shoulders of the managers of Nakuru not to exert brutality on the citizens to create space for these facilities, but to acquire space and create these facilities for the citizens of Nakuru. I was horrified at the amount of brutality I saw meted on people who had invested on railway land in Nakuru. It was horrifying. Some of them have come to consult me in my dual capacity as a leader and as a lawyer. If you look at their papers, they had long term leases from the Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC). They had paid Railways rent for the land. Railways had concurred with their development programs together with the municipality and some had leases for as long as 50 years. If the destruction of property was meant to accelerate this conferment, then it was a wrong turn, and it should not be encouraged. I hope those people whose properties were destroyed have exercised their rights and gone to courts of law, because the documents I have seen from some of them have not only arguable cases, but overwhelming cases for compensation particularly from Kenya Railways. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to urge the managers of Nakuru, including my friend’s daughter, Sen. Susan Kihika, that now you must exhibit your leadership. I am sure that my brother from West Pokot and Sen. Murkomen, when they drive home, it takes two hours, sometimes even three hours, to drive from Lanet through Nakuru Town. You remain in the same spot for one hour in such a small town that cannot manage traffic. I know that Sen. Kihika and the governor run in opposite directions politically, but I hope that the leaders of Nakuru must now start expanding facilities and services to make Nakuru a place to be. I have seen sign posts all over Nakuru saying “the county of unlimited opportunities.” I hope that some of those unlimited opportunities are not traffic jams, because if they are, then it is not a plus, it is a minus. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to urge Nakuru to live to its old billing as a truly cosmopolitan city. In the history of this country, Nakuru had Achieng’ Oneko as a"
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