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    "id": 501033,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chanzu",
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu",
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    "content": "Gakuya for this very important idea and very good initiative. It is a signal and it should serve as an eye-opener to the planners whom we have entrusted with the responsibility of planning our cities and towns. It is becoming a problem all over the country. It is not only here. When you come from Thika, for example, you take very few minutes. But by the time you get to the Museum Hill Roundabout, getting to town becomes a very big problem. You end up spending even 30 or 40 minutes. Just coming out of this Parliament, here at Continental House up to Nyayo National Stadium is a problem. The other day, I was going to the airport and it took me one hour to just get out of this place. So, the issue of opening up the City is important. We really condemn those people who have grabbed land around the roundabouts like the one near the University of Nairobi. Some people grabbed land many years back and put up buildings there. If you come around here, you again find the same thing. If you go to Nyayo National Stadium, you will find the same thing. So, it is a very good idea. For Mombasa, even getting to the Port is hell. This is the reason why the Port is becoming very uneconomical; there is lack of space to move out of the Port. For those of us who use the Kisumu International Airport, when you come from the airport to town, it is a big problem and yet, the town has not even grown. So, this Motion should not end here. It should be something that can serve as an eye-opener to the planners. Right now, that is what we are trying to do, out of a Motion that we did in this Parliament. The roads running in constituencies are also being done in piecemeal and in a very haphazard way. We are giving the Government what we want to be done in our constituencies, but it is picking the roads that are totally different and yet, we are the ones who come from those places. So, it is something that must be looked at in a broad way so that we can open up this country. If you look at the same place Mheshimiwa Gakuya is talking about, which is Gikomba, the Jua Kali sheds project that started there many years back during the Moi era is something that should have grown. Even those people who want to go and buy school boxes there for their children find it impossible to get to the place. So, it is something that must be looked at very seriously so that the Country Bus Station and the Wakulima Market are modernized. Some of us used to go and buy vegetables from Gikomba on Sunday mornings. However, now you cannot go because you will spend the whole Sunday morning there. So, it is a very important idea which all of us must support. Word must get to the people who are charged with the responsibility in the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, the Nairobi County Government and all the other commissions. When I come from Kisumu International Airport to join the road going towards my home, I spend more time than the flying time from Nairobi. Driving from the airport The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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