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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Poghisio",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Losuron Poghisio",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you very much for the opportunity to support this Report; that Nakuru gains city status or that this House be able to bestow that honor upon the Municipality of Nakuru. I want to ride on what the speakers who have spoken ahead of me have said. I refer particularly to Sen. Murkomen and Sen. Wetangula who have spoken. They have put the case for Nakuru so well. That is a case for any municipality that may want to apply. There are certain duties that are basically of interest to this House. One of them is this of giving leadership in terms of conferring status on our towns, municipalities and cities. Mr. Speaker, Sir, time has come for us to do that now. The case for Nakuru is very clear. As has been said by Sen. Murkomen and Sen. Wetangula, Nakuru has been a very interesting place. It should have actually been a city long time. Remember during the days when we had provinces, Nakuru was the seat of one of the largest provinces and has handled many big districts that are within this province; that is, Narok, Kajiado, Turkana, Baringo and West Pokot. Those were big districts at that time. Nakuru should be a city, partly because it has also been in the interest of all our Presidents. They have all personally had interests in Nakuru. The first President operated mostly from Nakuru. The second President Moi operated mostly in Nakuru. Those of us who have been in politics for some time would realize that when President Moi was going to Nakuru, all of us, Members of Parliament (MPs), sometimes found ourselves in the ‘city’ of Nakuru waiting to see the President and it was so important. Therefore, Nakuru has hosted all of us and should easily become a city. One of the things about having a city status as has been said is that you are now asking for more and hope that you can actually handle that more which is coming your way. There are many problems that go with Nakuru being what it is. If we do and I hope this House passes this, a lot needs to be done. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you can have a city and people run away from it. People can move away from the city and you lose the city status if insecurity is not dealt with. If those issues, which have been raised here about street children are not dealt with, people will run away. Who wants to live in a city that discriminates and has insecurity where people can be picked from the streets and nobody raises a finger? That can be unfortunate. The person that I knew last who did that was the former President in Uganda called dictator Idi Amin. When Idi Amin was made the Chairperson of Organization of African Union (OAU), which is the precursor of what we call African Union (AU) now, and he was hosting the Summit in Kampala, it was said that they collected all disabled and street children and dumped them in the lake. At least the ones who went to Chemususu were returned but these ones were never returned."
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