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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Shakeel",
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank you very much for that time. We need to concentrate on this. We do not have to go very far. We just need to go to Uganda. I was in Rwanda the other day. There is not even a single kiosk . In four days' in Rwanda, I saw only one piece of paper on the road. These are the sort of things we want to emulate. I know that we are talking about many things here. Many things need to be sorted out. Mr. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Government, I want you to, please, look at one thing. Why can the Kisumu City Council approve the construction of multi-storey buildings and yet our fire brigade cannot go higher than one storey? Where is the disconnect between planning and capability? If we cannot do it, where is the problem? Why do we have fire engines that do not work? Why are these questions not answered by the chief officers? The chief officers themselves need to pull up their socks. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, finally, I support the fact that councillors need to be compensated, because they are no longer part-time employees. They are full-time employees. If elders are now getting paid by local authorities, I see no reason as to why councillors cannot be paid as full-time employees. Let us ensure that they give a full-day's work. Let them not sit around the city councils. They have got offices in their wards. Let them sit there, and let them be acquainted. There seems to be a disconnect between the Local Authorities Transfer Fund (LATF) and October 14, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2707 the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF), and others. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think my time is up. Thank you very much."
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