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    "id": 394779,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/394779/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ndiema",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1067,
        "legal_name": "Henry Tiole Ndiema",
        "slug": "henry-tiole-ndiema"
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, we need to plan our towns and centres. Let us not wait for them to become municipalities or cities, like Nairobi, so that we can start thinking of widening the roads. We should plan wide roads. If you look at Nairobi, I think that we must give credit to the colonial government, because they planned roads in a way that there was space, yet Nairobi was a small centre. In fact, they did not have vehicles and were using ox-carts, but the roads were wide enough. Today there are no good roads in our estates. If you drive from here towards Limuru, you will see that there are buildings now coming up next to the road. People have used a lot of money on these buildings. Very soon if we think about expanding that road, it may necessitate pulling down buildings on which a lot of money has been used by innocent Kenyans to build. That property is part of our GDP and so, why should we wait until structures come up and then, a few years down the line, we knock them down in the name of road construction? Where were we when we were planning? Madam Temporary Speaker, I support this Motion, so that we can have proper roads that can be used by all forms of traffic. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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