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    "id": 603334,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/603334/?format=api",
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwaura",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "also those other shanty structures of Kenyans who are trying to eke out a living despite the challenges of the economy. County governments have engineers and planners who give approvals for such buildings without even visiting the site. They just collect money at the office. More often than not, they overcharge you, if you want your development plans to be done very quickly. Therefore, people are constructing houses for the sake of constructing. Kenyans seem to only be concerned about the room they get into. Outside the rooms, the buildings are not very appealing. That contributes to the aerial view of the place. If you go to places like Githurai or Kahawa Wendani, you will find places looking like slums. The other day I was in Umoja; I used to live there when I was young. Again, it is supposed to be a low middle income estate, but it is now like a slum. There are no roads and water is everywhere. Right now with the El Nino rains, people’s houses are flooded. I am receiving calls of people who want to be rescued from floods in their own houses. If you look at a town like Narok, it is supposed to be submerged. Thika Road is an example of a development plan that was not very well conceived in terms of the. Just two days ago people almost slept on the road because of the flooding. There was chaos. In Ngara, there is a big road leading to a very narrow entry into the city. You wonder what kind of planning is going on because we waste a lot of man hours on these roads."
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