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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am not in any way imputing any improper motive on the Minister. I am just making a passionate appeal, so that he can also consider my district. That is what I am trying to put across. We are pals in this game and as a pal, he should not forget his friend. Generally, the Ministry is lacking supervision right from the headquarters down to the local authorities. The Minister sends out the LATF and LASDAP and then he sits back and does not follow up to see how the money is being spent or what the councillors are doing. This has created some laxity, particularly on planning. For example, Kosere District Headquarters is just an up- coming town. In fact, Kosere should have been upgraded to a town council and Oyugis to a municipality. Oyugis has grown and has become so big that it should be upgraded to a municipality. If proper planning is not done, the time will come when people will be putting up structures anyhowly and in few years to come, bulldozers will be brought to clear the structures. Why can we not plan properly right now, when the town is still coming up? If planners from the headquarters were visiting local authorities regularly, they could be seeing in time and in advance that there is no proper planning. In fact, Kosere can become a New York or a London within Africa, because the land on which it is being put up is very vast. We only need to have proper planning, which is lacking at the moment. The Ministry officials are not visiting the local authorities to instruct them on how structures should be put up and at what pace."
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