{"id":1074825,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1074825/?format=json","text_counter":280,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. (Dr.) Langat","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13189,"legal_name":"Christopher Andrew Langat","slug":"christopher-andrew-langat"},"content":"Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you for also giving me this opportunity to say something about this Motion of elevating Nakuru town to a city. It has all that it takes being an agricultural hub. I have a lot of special attachment to this town because I went to Nakuru High School and Menengai High School whereby I am privileged to say that I was a classmate of Hon. David Gikaria. We attended the same class and I want to say I have a lot of attachment to this place. Geographically, it is central and it deserves to be a city. However, it has a lot of challenges of late. Long time ago it was a very good place but of late it is facing a lot of image challenges. I have heard people talk about the issue where the current governor took a very inhumane position of taking those street children to the bush whereby they"}