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    "id": 1134438,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang'",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, I beg to second this report of the Senate Committee on Labour and Social Welfare. I congratulate the Committee led by Sen. Sakaja for taking up this matter. Ideally, this is an issue that the County Assembly of Nairobi City County would have dealt with to its finality. The fact that the matter came to the Senate indicates that there has been some breakdown in terms of representation and oversight of projects that are being undertaken by the County Government. The Governor of the Nairobi City County is now substantively in office. There are no more excuses and she is no longer acting. I urge her to take up all the responsibilities of the office of the governor with confidence. Let me start with the early process of assessing how to take over from the Nairobi Metropolitan Service (NMS) because we know the deed of transfer will be lapsing in a few months’ time. Earlier on when we were debating the BPS, we indicated that the national Government has not made a budgetary allocation for the NMS, which could signal the fact that it has accepted that the NMS is not going to be a permanent entity. I encourage the Governor of Nairobi City County to take up all those projects that were initiated by the former governor be it Hon. (Dr.) Kidero or Hon. Sonko and those that were initiated by the NMS. She should suffer no crisis of confidence because as things stand, she is the substantive governor. I urge the Nairobi City County Assembly to also be more vigilant on some of these projects because if the people of Dandora are not getting value, there is a Member of County Assembly (MCA) from that Ward who should be at the forefront of ensuring that the project is pursued to its logical conclusion. There has been a misconception that Nairobi City County belongs to the people of Nairobi. There is nobody like the people of Nairobi unless you are going to refer the Maasai community. Nairobi City County belongs to all of us from Makueni to Marsabit,"
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