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"content": "That is why as Governor of Nairobi City County, the first thing that I will do is step down Nairobi into four boroughs. We will have North, East, West and South. At that level, the person in charge of water and roads in Kayole should not be the same person I am holding to account in Karen or South C for that matter. The person thinking about markets in Westlands should not be the same person thinking about markets in Mukuru kwa Njenga. You cannot run Nairobi that way because it is too big. Seeing that it is too big, a lot is lost and slips through the fingers of those in charge. We can agree on the budget for each level. Is this what we need for environment? Is this what we need to make sure that there is no garbage? Is this the number of nurses, doctors and drugs that we need for our hospitals? They will report at the level almost like County Executive Committee Members (CECs). I like what Governor (Prof.) Anyang‟-Nyong‟o has done with the city manager. Nairobi will need four city managers in those boroughs. Once I have given the budget, my work is to move around Nairobi and observe. If I see garbage in Lavington, we know who is in charge of that sub county and he will go home. That is how you run a city. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I do not know if you were with us the last time we were in Washington DC. I met with the Office of the Mayor of Washington DC. I want to collaborate with Nairobi as sister capital cities. God willing, we will implement that from next year. They have the mayor who has a step down leadership. They know who is charge of transport, water, garbage and revenue in whichever part of Washington DC. What is happening in this city? As a result of the pressure that they have been given, it has almost become sacred. The accounting officer of NMS is not at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC). He is the State House controlled. Have we summoned the accounting officer of NMS? That is the person who is signing off for now. Not that there is a problem with him. He is a man that I respect. He is a good friend, but that is not what devolution envisaged. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we need to make sure that the lady in Mutuini can hold to account somebody that they can see and touch. The should be able to see them and have public participation. I had the chairs of all the city council estates at my office recently. They fear because they have been told that their houses at Woodley, Ofafa and Ziwani will be demolished. There were around ten estates in Eastlands. We are saying okay in as much we support urban renewal, there is no one who can come sit with us, talk to us and explain to us. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, a human in that seat will say look from 1,000 houses we will build 13,000 houses. All of you 1,000 who have been there for three generations you have been in those houses, we will deem what you have been paying all this time to be ownership. When we build the 13,000 houses, you will have a unit. What does it take to do that? You say affordable housing. Affordable to who? If you have been paying Kshs2,000 for 20 years, you move me to Kshs11,000 is that affordable to me? That is the problem I am sorting out in highrise now in Majengo. People were in the slum. They were paying Kshs6,000 or Kshs5,000 and now they are paying Kshs11,000. They are being auctioned almost soon because o Kshs60 million in arrears. I support this."
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