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    "id": 1239468,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orwoba",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the Petition on Kajiado Municipality Clothes Market. My contribution towards this mainly is to point out that while we are striving to ensure that we have market places for our traders, there has been a common theme; that once the tender has been put out and awarded, there are always delays in execution of construction in different parts of the country. At one point, the value adds scale down, then you end up with a structure that is not what was proposed in the budget. This is not the first time that this kind of thing has happened. It is a common habit out there that tenderpreneurs take advantage of market tenders. There are many proposals of market places, but they do not focus on what traders are looking for. You will find a proposal to construct a market far away from the traders. Most of the time, once the building is complete, you do not have any traders wanting to be in that market. We have had situations in Kisii County and even here in Nairobi City County, where once a market is complete, traders do not want to use it because the proximity of the clients and them is not economically viable. Even as we ensure that we play oversight on some of these projects, it is high time we considered having public participation before we put up big proposals of markets to ensure that we meet the needs of the scalers. In conclusion, as the Kenya Kwanza Government is striving to ensure that we give to the electorate what we promised in terms of the mama mboga and the small-scale traders, we adopt some of the international standards that we have on markets. If you go to a country like Ghana, you will see that they try as much as possible to have markets that are within the reach of the clients and the traders. There is an example of a market in Accra, Ghana, called Makola Market, where traders want to invest because it meets their needs. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I support, I hope that we will ensure that something is done so that the market is complete."
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