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    "id": 1268326,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1268326/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Embakasi West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mark Mwenje",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1429,
        "legal_name": "George Theuri",
        "slug": "george-theuri"
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    "content": "There are bigger problems in this county government. I am an advocate. I was admitted in 2012. I have practised for over 10 years. I can assure you there are parcels of land whose rates we are still trying to get. This depends with the officer that you see at City Hall. One officer will ask you to pay Ksh10,000 while another one will ask you for Ksh100,000. In between, the kickbacks are even more than what the county government collects. That is one of the biggest problems with county governments. That is why this Bill is timely. We can now start thinking of charging different rates, especially in Kiambu and Nyeri. I wish those Members were here. Kiambu is in danger of losing all its agricultural land. In fact, the only areas I expect to be left are the sides of Limuru. The whole of this other side of Kiambu is disappearing to development. Nyeri is suffering the same problem of subdivisions, same as Murang’a. Even the land that my grandfather left has been subdivided between my grandfather's children—my father and my uncles. This is one of the things to discourage. I believe that how we deal with this Bill is going to assist us. How do we ensure that we even reward the people who dedicate certain portions of their land to plant trees? They have literally created forests on their respective pieces of land. I believe that the National Rating Bill should reward those people in light of climate change. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I know there are Members who want to contribute and I am looking at the time. I think they deserve 10 minutes each."
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