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    "id": 189429,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/189429/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Lands",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 129,
        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
        "slug": "james-orengo"
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    "content": "We are not going to be in a situation where, for example, now the Government wants to build institutions within this city or somebody has got a good investment to put in this city, but they cannot get the land in order to put up that investment. So, we are going to make sure that those things are done. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Nairobi is already a regional centre. It is very competitive. I remember when the former President of the United States of America (USA) visited this part of the world in Entebbe, he could not come to Kenya but 90 per cent of his delegation was staying in Nairobi. Even when they went to Arusha in Tanzania, the delegation was staying here. I stand to be corrected. At that time I think Mr. K. Musyoka was the Foreign Affairs Minister. This was because these countries do not have the facilities. They do not have the bed space and communication networks. So, we have something to build on and that is only going to happen if we give this Ministry the capacity and the resources and it will happen. I think they have not been given sufficient money. We must try next time around to make sure that Nairobi metropolitan area gets enough money in order to compete with Dubai, Johannesburg, Singapore and all those cities we only dream of going to. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, planning is important and we cannot plan if we do not have the space. There are some people in this country who feel proud when they see themselves with large tracts of land lying idle. Keeping 1,000 acres on which you are doing nothing, is a very empty and backward kind of status symbol. If you keep that land, it is a dead asset and you owe it to this country, that if you do not want to use that land, particularly if it is Government land, you pay tax on it if you do not want to hand it over to the Ministry of Nairobi Metropolitan Development. So, I look forward to working close with the Ministry to make sure that they succeed. July 16, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1895 I beg to second. Thank you very much."
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