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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chanzu",
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for the chance to make a contribution to this Bill. I consider it very important. This is because somebody said that “if you do not plan, you plan to fail”. This has also happened. In fact, a number of problems we are having in this country, with regard to our towns and cities, are because of the way we deal with the matters and not having foresight. If you look at places like the eastern parts of the City of Nairobi, I do not know whether it was an imagination that the population was not going to grow. The roads are narrow and the buildings are encroaching on roads and so on. This Bill is very important because of the changes we are making and the rate at which our country is growing. The population is still growing very fast. It is very important that we have the proposals in this Physical Planning Bill implemented. That is why it is very important for our country. If you want to talk about how we can decongest cities and towns, you must have a Physical Planning Bill. It is unfortunate that earlier on, there was no planning at all or it was so haphazard. Now it is very difficult to correct. There is a saying that, “Better late than never.” Therefore, I believe the Bill we are putting in place now, the Physical Planning Bill, National Assembly Bill No. 46 of 2015, will open up the areas where we have had problems because of lack of proper planning earlier on. It will help and provide a road map. When we talk about issues to do with Vision 2030, we are talking about how our cities and towns are going to grow, and how Kenya, as a whole, is going to develop. It is, therefore, a very critical Bill in terms of the development and the growth of the country and our cities. If you look at roads which are being done now in Nairobi, for example, Langata Road--- After a long time it was made a dual carriage way. Immediately after that, it got a lot of congestion because a lot of other towns mushroomed outside Nairobi. The residents there are people working in the City of Nairobi. Places like Ongata Rongai have become big towns. In fact, most of them are cities themselves, an example is Kiserian, which is also growing. Because of the cost of property within the city, people who come to Nairobi are finding it logical and economical to go to the outskirts. That is the reason why this Bill is essential. If you go to the eastern part, you find places which were not even expected to be there have grown big, areas like Jerusalem and Uhuru Estates. Eventually, other areas developed because of population growth, as we have not developed the rural areas. 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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