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    "id": 1196970,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "You and I are Members of the County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC). We want counties to meet their revenue targets by having own source revenue streams. I do not think hospitals in Bomet County charge parking fees. There could be a mall in Bomet Town. Bomet Town is big, but I do not know whether they have a mall. I need to go and check. The only place I disagree with Sen. Sifuna is on shopping malls. I hope our resolutions will capture that because we want our counties to meet their revenue targets by having several streams of own source revenue. We can exempt educational institutions, hospitals and airports. You may have an emergency at the airport and that is provided for. However, we have shopping malls in the counties. We can agree that when a person goes to a shopping mall and pay, for example, Kshs200 as parking fees, at least a third of that amount should go to the county government, so that they can meet their own source revenue targets. We also have essential services. You will remember that during the previous session, there was a time the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government issued regulations on Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19). Some drivers were to be issued with letters to show that they were offering essential services. When we make a resolution, as a rider, we should state that if a person is driving an ambulance or any vehicle offering essential services, we should have a provision within the regulations to exempt them. Such people should be given priority to pass even when there is traffic. Ambulances should not use the same lanes like other vehicles. We should make proposals to cater for such vehicles on roads. It is good that Sen. Murkomen, who is the incoming Cabinet Secretary, will seize this matter. The fourth one is physical planning. The Government is keen on affordable housing. Even as people build apartments and other big buildings, they must ensure that there is parking because it is essential. I do not know whether that was the design, maybe the City Senator will inform me tête-à-tête whether it is by design that when you go to some estates, you will find people parking their vehicles on the main road. As we push for affordable housing--- I was disappointed, unless my eyesight failed me. I did not see the Secretary- General when the President visited Soweto B in Kibra. I do not know whether he was there."
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