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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, finally, let me just add one thing if you give me a half a minute. How many minutes do I have? Okay, I have five minutes to go. We must listen to the Professor who believes in devolution. The KRA that has been incorporated to collect revenue is at war with my people in Nairobi. I must say it. The other day when I was in Parliament, I got a short message on my phone that my car is parked at Ngong‟ Road and I am here. I thought my car had been stolen. If you look at how they are moving around with General Service Unit (GSU) officers harassing business people, you will be shocked. Nairobi is a business capital of this continent and they are harassing them. I am glad Boniface Mwangi released a video. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, they just come in without identification and they are bundling you up. These are business people who are being forced to pay more than 13 licenses. Despite that harassment, revenue collection has gone down. When you make revenue collection facilitative, compliance goes up. When you make it a policing issue, compliance goes down. That must be changed. We cannot have GSU collecting revenue in Nairobi with KRA. Women in markets are being bundled in the back of those broken down tetanus- filled pickups because of failing to pay Kshs35. Why are you even charging them in the first place, yet you are not providing services? The ladies in Gikomba would tell me they would be very happy to pay, but they have been paying and they have never seen somebody coming to clean up that market. The same case with Marikiti, Westlands and Outering Road markets, they want to pay but they are not getting services. We must change how we see this city and how we deal with transfer. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am happy that now we are starting to create a framework through which we can do transfer of functions. I would like to advice those who are currently in charge not to get too comfortable. You have just until March. I support the extension until August so as to facilitate that asset issue where we have the asset register. We should add an amendment that they should be reporting to the Senate on top of the IGRTC. Let us know the asset register of NMS that they have acquired. That is the trucks, the bowsers, tanks, vehicles and what not. I have seen so many Subarus and Land cruisers and I do not know how that is helping Nairobians. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we need that asset register back to Nairobi County. We need to understand. There are certain projects they got into without listening. When they started they were very good and facilitative. Maj. Gen. Badi would come up to my office. He is 24th floor and I am on 26th floor. He used to be told give him a brief and I would see and call all the 17 Members of Parliament (MPs). I would explain to them this is what we are doing and this is where we are. We would move on together. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I think a memo was sent to them telling them to stay as far away from politicians as possible. We are not just politicians. We did not hire ourselves. I got elected by close to a million Nairobians, I must account to them. I must tell them for this road, this is the plan. You call these officers and they have stopped picking up calls, but it is okay. It is a few months for us to get back Nairobi to its people."
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