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    "content": "Hon. Nyikal had raised his hand for me to point to him. I meant that Hon. Clive does not own land in Nairobi but he owns huge chunks of land in Kisii. There will be fairness with this new Bill. We will also ensure that the burden of property rating is shared fairly among the rate payers. That is where I was driving to: if you have more land you pay more and if you have less land, you pay less. You share the burden. The only reason why taxes, levies, and rates are levied on people is because you are the people enjoying the services offered by the county governments. Kenyans are very quick at demanding the supply of goods and services in their neighbourhoods. With the coming up of gated communities, people are selling what we call in my local language ploti maguta maguta . Those who understand the language know what it is. Those people who sell serviced plots will market them as serviced plots and what they would do is grade a murram road and put five poles of solar lighting. They would probably offer one line of tap water to show that there was clean drinking water. They would never tell you when you would build and develop that property. With time, even if there was a borehole, it would not be healthy to use for drinking water. Sinking septic pits, and whatever comes from your sewer system percolates into the water that you drink in those gated communities. It is, therefore, only fair that they be levied higher rates to ensure that county governments provide them with proper sewerage and adequate water in the gated communities. This goes beyond Nairobi and cities in the rural areas. If today you go to Kikuyu Town a place known as Ndeiya Ng’ombe - because the area was grazing land in the past - big modern estates are being built without the requisite services. We must ensure that county governments have adequate revenues to provide services like roads, water, sewer systems and street lighting so that our people do not fall prey to vendors of land who market it as serviced yet it is not. They The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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