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    "id": 184246,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/184246/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Waititu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 147,
        "legal_name": "Ferdinand Ndung'u Waititu",
        "slug": "ferdinand-waititu"
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    "content": "Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the work that the Ministry is doing on the markets. But recently, there was an intended plan of Public/Private Partnership (PPP) which should be encouraged. Some of the markets that the local authority is not able to allocate some money were designed by the Ministry. The residents should be given a go-ahead to construct the markets. Right now, in Embakasi, there is no allocation for any market and we have places where we can construct markets. I request the Minister to direct the Nairobi City Council to design a market at Kariobangi South. It is supposed to be a big supermarket. We can engage our local people in constructing some of the stores. We know very well that lack of markets is what is causing the mushrooming of kiosks and illegal markets which, sometimes, make our people fight with the Nairobi City Council staff. Mr. Chairman, Sir, there are also some concerns that I wanted to raise with the Ministry due to massive grabbing of surrendered public land in the sub-divided schemes in Embakasi. Right now, we are struggling to get some pieces of land to construct some schools but most of the land has been grabbed by the people there through the Nairobi City Council. People have been surrendering 10 per cent of their land. But the Nairobi City Council is reluctant to take inventory of those pieces of land. The people at the Nairobi City Council collude with some land speculators and allocate those pieces of land illegally. In fact, they do not even get change of user for those pieces of land. They just allocate directly to land grabbers. Right now, our areas of Mihang'o, Ruai, Gundu and Kamulu had surrendered a lot of land during the sub-division. But that land has been grabbed. I wish to ask the Minister to direct the Nairobi City Council to repossess all those pieces of land that were left for public utility, so that they can be used for the purposes that they were initially intended. We also have a big problem with the way the matatus are presently operating in Nairobi. All the matatus from eastern areas and, especially, Embakasi, end up in Muthurwa Market. It is 2792 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES October 15, 2008 only those matatus that are privately owned. Otherwise, matatus from the big companies come to the City Centre. Mr. Chairman, Sir, our people are complaining that there is no level playing field for the"
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