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    "id": 1197920,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise to strongly support this Motion and applaud Sen. Sifuna for this timely intervention. It is bad to claim that you are offering essential services, but you deny people from accessing them. It is even immoral when that essential service is a hospital facility. It is completely immoral to expect somebody to pay money when they visit a hospital. Like they say in West Africa, we must ask ourselves; when did the rain start beating us? We must fix that. Sen. Sifuna, I am glad that you are the Senator for Nairobi City County and you have a strong seven-member team in this House. You can count me in because I will stand with you on this matter. What is happening in Nairobi City County is actually a system controlled by cartels from within the Nairobi City County government. They want to charge anything and everything so as to make money, not to ensure delivery of services, but money which they can carry home in the evening. I am speaking with authority because as the longest serving Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in the National Assembly and the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee (CPAIC) in the Senate, I had the opportunity to know how money used to be stolen from the then City Hall and now the county government. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I urge the seven Senators for Nairobi City County to organise for a formal meeting with the governor and MCAs. They have to review that because this is not just a national problem, it is the Nairobi City county government that is doing these things. They need to go and tell them that what they are doing is wrong. If they refuse, then we should step in based on the constitutional principle of conflict of laws. According to the Constitution, if a national legislation is at conflict with a county legislation, the national legislation prevails. If they refuse to listen to you, then we are going to legislate and prohibit collection of fees at parking points from institutions that render essential services. Why we must take this squarely to the county government is because majority of the buildings in Nairobi - if not all of them - are not planned by experts. If you go to New York or Washington, you do not see vehicles parked alongside the road. In fact, walking in New York and Washington is pleasant because the experts who draw buildings provide for parking in the architectural plans. What stops the people who are putting up a new building that will have 50 offices from having three or four levels? They can designate parking spaces in the underground, have two levels at the basement then three more levels above the ground. An office block that will have 50 offices should have a minimum 50 parking slots for people in that particular building. With that, the people who will be working in that building will not have to park in town where they will probably be harassed. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Senator for Nairobi City County knows that we have institutions that are doing something about it. The last time I was at the Marble Arch"
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