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    "id": 1197922,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Hotel, around four or five years ago, the Hotel had acquired a parking. When you visit that hotel and get a service, they simply stamp your parking slip and you drive out. They are of the view that since you parked in their parking and you were serviced in their hotel, they should not double tax you. They merely stamp your parking slip and you drive away. They do the same thing at the Norfolk Hotel. This is the innovation that should be put in place. Allow me tell you the story of cartels. The outgoing governor of Kakamega County, which is a humble and a friendly county in Western Kenya, went out of his way and bought a one-storey building that sat on a very large space. He knocked down that building and created a parking space and he is now collecting the parking fees because that has now become his property. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is this selfish thinking and greed for money and more money in public service that makes Kenya very unattractive. What will you be asking people to pay for as they enter JKIA, Kisumu International Airport, Eldoret International Airport and Wilson Airport? When you go to Madrid or Barcelona, you will realise that public service vehicles are not allowed to park at the airport. What we should be doing at the airport is allow the Uber to enter the airport without paying a cent. The Uber should drop a client and leave without paying anything. They should only pay if they park at the airport. That will help the traffic to flow and the country will look friendly. If you go to Kigali in Rwanda, a small country, that harassment of paying for parking is not there. We are making our city unattractive. When visitors come, and thanks to us, they do not get acknowledgement for their payment. When did the Hon. Members last receive an acknowledgement of payment from a parking boy? When one parks somewhere, a parking boy will by right insist that he must be given Kshs100 and when that does not happen, he calls the people who work at the City Hall. That is because he works with them and before you know it, those people have clamped your vehicle. I hope none of the Members has gone through this. It is amazing. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, taxi drivers own the parking slots, which are supposed to be free. If you find an empty parking slot which is pilferaged by taxi drivers and you park there, those drivers will call the people who work for City Hall to come and clamp your vehicle in order for you to go and pay. You can imagine someone in transit, who has come to do business and bring money to the country going to place X, parks and when they come back they get their vehicle clamped and they have to go through that long procedure at City Hall; come back, pay Kshs800 and what not. That makes the cost of doing business very high and the town becomes completely unattractive. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Sen. Sifuna should talk to the governor. If he fails then we should work together, as a Senate to make our city decent by cutting out some of these unnecessary charges. I want to say this with all due respect. Usually when one is moving a Motion and they ask someone to second, the Mover and the Seconder must do extensive research so as to raise the interest of the House in the Motion. That is why it is called moving and the"
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