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    "id": 518078,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kang’ata",
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        "legal_name": "Irungu Kang'ata",
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    "content": "is because of Murang’a. I have seen from that Schedule that the proposed legislation had proposed to fix Murang’a Town as the headquarters of Murang’a County. As an area Member of Parliament (MP) for Kiharu where Murang’a Town is, I am very happy with that proposal. I would never want a situation where Murang’a Town is no longer the county headquarters. There have been whispers in my county that people have been proposing to move the county headquarters from Murang’a Town to another place. Those whispers are wrong and I thought this Bill by the Senate would have ensured that those whispers are buried in the deepest sea and that debate is forgotten. The reasons are obvious and I would imagine that they apply to each and every county in Kenya. The reasons are that Murang’a Town has super infrastructure. There have been heavy investments by various Ministries to upgrade roads and the sewerage system. We have a multimillion water installation. Therefore, if you try to move the headquarters to another place, it would mean that you are going to employ a lot of resources to upgrade that new town to make it reach the standard of a county headquarters which currently Murang’a is benefiting from. I am sure those reasons apply in Kitui, Turkana, Siaya and almost each and every county in Kenya. This is so that we do not give room for maneuvering and fights. It would make sense for us to fix specifically a county headquarters. It is also part of our legislation tradition, these days I have noted a new practice where we are fixing in our statutes headquarters for various entities. I was in this House when we were discussing the Media Bill where we stated that the headquarters for this body which is created under this law shall be in Nairobi."
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