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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Baiya",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njoroge Baiya",
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    "content": "The issue I have is that, having regard to what the Minister said, and to the clearly very important contribution that this Authority is supposed to make in the country, it does not really give us the flesh, so to speak. The Bill does not even attempt to give us the substantive provisions that need to be made. There are lots of problems which we would have expected this Bill to address. The authorities’ failure to effectively enforce existing legislations has, indeed, led to a lot of problems and brought about a lot of challenges in this country. If you look at the building of commercial houses, for instance, you will appreciate that this House has witnessed, for a couple of decades, unplanned constructions as if there were no building codes and regulations. You find a lot of ongoing development which in totality has aspects of under-development by virtue of the fact that they do not adhere to any planned development. Such developments do not provide for provision of services such as road transport, fire fighting services, et cetera . Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the main failures in all these areas are the parent Ministries we are talking about and the relevant civic authorities. So, I would have expected a substantive legislation which would allude to how this body would also harmonise and co-ordinate the upholding of these standards by all the contractors, and even the clients who undertake works. I am sure that if the law makes it mandatory for regulations to be upheld, it will be much easier to require a contractor not to undertake work when he knows that there is no approved plan, or when that plan does not comply with certain specific requirements. So, it is very important that we do not just come up with a skeleton law establishing an Authority without giving it the substantive provisions, which it will be enforcing to ensure that standards that are set up by the various other branches of the law are upheld by the various contractors. We very well know that even the quality of the works undertaken by contractors---"
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