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    "content": "discussing concerns his constituency. He is also the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing. Hon. Kamanda: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I do not know whether to support or not to support this Motion coming from my dear friend, hon. Gakuya, who has brought many Motions here and I have been supporting them. However, on this one, he needed more consultations and, more so, from me. First of all, the entire 50 acres is within my constituency and I am also the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing. Maybe, I could have shed light as far as the 50 acres are concerned. Nevertheless, let me support him on the issue of traffic jams because this is an issue of the entire Nairobi City and not just Jogoo Road. On the 50 acres that my friend says should be acquired by the Government, I would like to inform him that the Government, through Kenya Railways, has a plan to look for money and pay the pensioners so that it can get back the land for the simple reason of a metropolitan railway in Nairobi. Those plans are already there. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you are one of the Nairobi MPs and you know that there is a master-plan already undertaken by the county government. On 21st of this month, the Governor of Nairobi has invited all of us, including my Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing, so that they can take us through the master-plan for the entire Nairobi. That is because the traffic jam in Nairobi is not in one area only. I believe they cannot do the master-plan for Nairobi and not touch on that particular land. As we speak, the land is not even 50 acres; it is about 30 acres because the Nairobi County Government has also acquired 20 acres to put up the Muthurwa Market. So, part of the Muthurwa Market does not belong to the Government; it belongs to Nairobi County Government. I am in a dilemma on this particular Motion because it is better if we had consulted. We could have consulted with my dear friend here and I could have told him all those things - what the Ministry and the county government are doing. That is because the traffic jam in Nairobi is not only in one area. If you ask those Members of Parliament who live across the border of Nairobi, you will find there is traffic jam everywhere.The national Government and the county government have already come up with a master-plan on how to reduce traffic jam in Nairobi. So, for this particular Motion, I am not going to support it. I do not want to support it because I have a lot of information on what the Government and the county government are doing. The 50 acres that the hon. Member is talking about is entirely within Starehe Constituency. I know what the Government is doing. It is only that my dear friend here never consulted. I could have told him the plans that are there to ease the congestion in Nairobi, and not only in one area. The master-plan for Nairobi was done over 50 years ago; in 1950. It is now that the Nairobi County Government with the national Government are trying to come up with the master-plan for Nairobi for another 100 years. If we see the expansion and modernization of Jogoo Road, I have no problem with that. But about the acquisition of the land, even if this Motion passes here, it is a Motion that will never be implemented. It cannot be implemented because there are issues and the national Government and the county government are working on the entire Nairobi plan. I thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. 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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