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    "id": 518080,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/518080/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kang’ata",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1826,
        "legal_name": "Irungu Kang'ata",
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    "content": "massive investments. Assume you are from another country and you want to know the county headquarters of a county so that you invest your resources there, you will find it difficult. You will be going round and round inquiring where the headquarters of, say, Garissa is. You may as well be told it is Garissa Town. After you pump in millions and billions of shillings in Garissa Town, a governor wakes up one day and decides to shift the headquarters of Garissa to, say, Garbatulla. To avoid such kind of shenanigans we need to specifically provide for the headquarters of counties. This is so that the 47 units become centers of attraction and development for this country. When you do a social and economic projection, especially when you want to raise standards of a country, you need to have that country urbanized. All factors being constant, ceteris paribus, the 47 key towns of this country are going to become the centers of development. Kenya will develop when 80 per cent of Kenyans will be living in urban areas. This means, if we are moving towards an area where majority of our citizens will be in urban areas, it is important we start early to boost development of urban areas. One way of doing that may include coming up with a master plan of the 47 clearly legislated areas which are going to become the engines of development. These proposed legislations would be one way for us as parliamentarians to gear this country towards that direction. We should clearly state the headquarters of the 47 regions and then we facilitate investment in those regions. Majority of Kenyans will stand urbanized and those areas will become the cities of the future. However, when you keep it open, you are going to create a situation where there is some form of darkness and informality. Our work as legislators is to ensure that we fight informality and convert it to formality. Thank you. I oppose."
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