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    "id": 240908,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kombo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Local Government",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 218,
        "legal_name": "Musikari Nazi Kombo",
        "slug": "musikari-kombo"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The Government did not delay in responding to the tragedy. The Government responded swiftly to that tragedy by mobilizing all available equipment and resources to help rescue those trapped. (b) No disciplinary action has been taken against Nairobi City Council engineers. However, we suspended three officers of Nairobi City Council - two planners and a building surveyor. Their matter is now in court. (c) The Nairobi City Council has put in place a number of measures to guard against recurrence of such tragedies. Some of the measures are as follows:- (i) The Nairobi City Council has now put in place measures to ensure that developers engage the professional services of registered architects, engineers and town planners, before their proposals are evaluated. (ii) Contractors are now required to ensure safe construction practices are adhered to during the building construction, and shall remain so after the construction. (iii) The registered professionals, particulary architects and engineers, are now being given conditional approval to inspect architectural and engineering designs undertaken by them, and sign an indemnity to take the responsibility for actions of negligence and/or omissions during construction and possible structural failures in future. (iv) The project architects and structural engineers are now required to issue a certificate of good workmanship for all types of building, before the council can issue the mandatory occupation certificate to permit the use of the building. (v) Regular enforcement operations are being undertaken to verify that developments that are under implementation have secured all the Nairobi City Council approvals. If found not to have complied, appropriate enforcement action is taken. (vi) Mandatory statutory inspections of the implementation of the approved construction works are now being undertaken by the City Council of Nairobi."
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