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    "id": 189474,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Muriithi",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Industrialization",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ndiritu Muriithi",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, my name is Mr. Ndiritu Muriithi from a town called Rumuruti in Kenya. I would like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Motion. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the Motion. On a light touch, I would like to inform my colleague, Mr. Mututho, that Rumuruti is some distance from Nairobi. So, I am not certain whether I can contribute immediately to improving the lot of Nairobi. Having said that, I would like to also congratulate the Minister for a job well done. The Minster and his team have demonstrated commitment by the vigour with which they have gone about their work. As I support this Vote, I would like to urge the Minister and his team to take some of the initiatives that are already in place and ensure that they cover the entire metropolis. The issue of being able to identify, physically, where commerce is happening and where, for instance, emergency services have to respond to, is critical. I urge the Minister to ensure that the 1918 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES July 16, 2008 pilot projects being undertaken in down town Nairobi are spread to the entire metropolis. I would also like him to ensure that we go back to the scheduled public transport system. Hon. Members will recall that sometime back, Nairobi used to have a scheduled public transport system. During those days, it was possible for somebody in Umoja or Komarok or Buruburu to know at what time a bus would pass by. That enabled people to plan their time accordingly, which enabled them to get to work without wasting a lot of person-hours, as Mr. Kajwang said. So, I urge the Minister to revisit this issue and ensure that we go back to that system, so that we can move the working population within the metropolis quite efficiently. I am certain that such a system will improve the way our economy is performing. I am gratified that the Minister, at a different forum, talked about introducing rail passenger service within the greater metropolitan area. As Mr. Mututho said while referring to Australia, people in many cities in the western world get to their places of work and business using pubic transport, because it is cheaper and efficient. I am, therefore, quite gratified that this team is talking about delivering a light rail system, so that we can move around efficiently. With those very many remarks, I beg to support."
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