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    "id": 169939,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/169939/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Githae",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Local Government",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 159,
        "legal_name": "Robinson Njeru Githae",
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    "content": "Again, under the current Local Government Act, there is no local authority known as a city. The highest is a municipal. So, again, we are trying to amend the law, so that we include the cities. So, although Mombasa, Kisumu and Eldoret were elevated to cities, they cannot be given that recognition because it is not there in the Local Government Act. Nairobi was special and it was given a Charter by Her Majesty the Queen. We have no intention of going back to the Queen to tell her to give Mombasa and Kisumu charters. So, we want to amend the Local Government Act to give the Minister authority to elevate municipalities into cities."
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