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    "id": 1108320,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1108320/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13131,
        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "road, everybody moved to Thika Road and that has resulted in a massive traffic at rush hours. You do not want to be on Thika Road at 7.00 a.m. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we need a proper mass transit system in Nairobi County. The Japanese did a plan with Japan International Cooperation Agency which cost Kshs200 million half of which was paid by the Nairobi City Council with the remaining amount paid by the Japanese Government. If you look at the plan that was drawn, there is proper parking for train users with properly timed trains getting into town after every five minutes. For example, there would be a train at 7.00am, 7.05 a.m., 7.10 a.m., 7.15 a.m. and so on. The trains also have circular movements, which allow someone to move from Kasarani to South C and so on. Such a project can cost this county about Kshs100 billion. I am making such a guess because Addis Ababa has done their trains at about Kshs45 billion which is less than the cost of the Nairobi Express Way. Such a project cannot be funded by Nairobi County on its own because our revenues are around Kshs12 billion. We have an approximate budget of Kshs32 billion. What many jurisdictions do an infrastructure bond where the revenue that will come to Nairobi for the next 30 years can be discounted. As the governor of Nairobi County, I would be able to afford Kshs3 billion per year for that project. It can also be made a PPP project where you operate on transfer. There are many people around the world who are willing to come and put money in the mass transit system in Nairobi and collect the train fare for the next 20 years although this Bill talks about a maximum of 30 years. If we do that, we will have improved the lives of the people of Nairobi County without depending on what is collected every month in Nairobi County. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, another challenge that the people of Nairobi face is water. The problem of water in Nairobi County cannot and will not be sorted out by the Nairobi Water and Sewerage Company or the Nairobi Metropolitan Services by digging boreholes half of which are not working. About 80 per cent of Nairobians, who live in a hub, have never experienced a shower because they do not have access to piped water. The water infrastructure in Nairobi County was set up years ago. The railway had its own parallel water system, which was a little bit more efficient. However, the places that were served by that old line now had more than 100 times more the number of people because of the apartments that have come up in Kileleshwa and Upper Hill area. We need a complete overhaul of the infrastructure of water and sewerage in Nairobi County. However, can the Nairobi County Government afford that? We have two issues. One is the quantity of water coming into Nairobi and that is why we support the northern water collector tunnel business as well as the improvement of the Ndakaini Dam. However, that is still not enough. The number of million cubic meters that Nairobians need is much more. We first need the quantity but before that, we need the infrastructure. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the word ‘Cartels’ is used a lot by lazy leaders who do not want to solve problems. Because of the manual nature of the systems available, you will find that where there is a lever to open water, a house has been built around it and it is locked and the only person who knows where the lever to open the water is, runs a water truck business. The cost of non-revenue water is 46 per cent in Nairobi County."
}