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    "id": 1074692,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "About a month ago, I was privileged to undertake a 14-day tour of our neighboring country, the Republic of Uganda. We visited most of the towns in Uganda and my surprise was that all the towns that we visited were called cities. We visited the City of Mbale which is home to the Bagisu. We also went to Gulu; the City of Gulu the Mayor, Mbarara; the City of Mbarara and Kabale; the City of Kabale. All those cities have mayors and everything that goes with it. Most of those cities are smaller than Nakuru. It seems that there was a policy to make any capital of a region a city. If that is to be the criteria, then Nakuru also qualifies to be a city because it is the capital of the largest region in the Republic of Kenya. However, responsibilities accrue with the conferment of city status. Those responsibilities are many as set out in the First Schedule of the Urban Areas and Cities Act. It is illustrative to note that they will have to look at the traffic control and parking. Sen. Wetangula mentioned this. One can really be delayed in Nakuru town because of traffic. Therefore, they have to look at these problems now rather than waiting until they become like other cities such as Nairobi and Mombasa. They have the opportunity to foreplan, to avoid the traffic that we see in other cities. From the Report of the Committee, I can tell that most of what is there is work in progress and that includes availability of water. We do have problems with water even in the existing cities but they have the opportunity to deal with it now. They can convert the Lanet Airstrip into an airport. The parks and dumpsites are also work in progress. I hope that the promises that have been made under, ‘work in progress’, will be fulfilled. I wish that we had a way of checking if the work in progress has continued or stopped. I wish there was a way we could go back one or two years to see if the work in progress is continuing or stopped. In Kenya, we have a habit of starting projects but do not complete. We just start them to get what we want and then it stops there."
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