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    "id": 60535,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Shakeel",
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, in my contribution this morning, I congratulated the President for a very good speech and the comments that he made. I want to continue and speak about other issues that he has raised which I think are very important. We, in Kenya, have been suffering under the outdated Companies Act. I am very pleased to note that the new Companies Bill, Insolvency Bill and the Partnership Bill will be coming to this House within the next three months. Devolution has been a very important element and a cornerstone of the Constitution. However, it appears that the devolution is not proceeding as planned. Its implementation is only partial in so far as it protects certain interests. It is in our interests to allow devolution to go the way it is meant to be. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I urge His Excellency the President to honour the order of the former President Daniel arap Moi who actually gave a Presidential Order that Kisumu be inaugurated as a city. All that was required were the instruments. I remember as the former mayor delivering drafts of the instruments to the Attorney-General for his approval and forwarding. However, nothing has ever happened. So, I am urging that in the process of devolution, it should be very clear which are the cities in Kenya. As far as I understand, there are only three cities in Kenya. These are Kisumu, Mombasa and Nairobi. So, I am urging for the implementation of that Presidential Order. I urge the Government to sign those instruments because, as a former mayor, I handed them to the Attorney-General. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the local authorities have over time developed into an order of themselves. I hope that devolution will be able to break that and take on the good elements and positives rather than dwell on the negatives. For arguments sake, a mamamboga in Kisumu is charged Kshs30 every day. That is over Kshs12,000 a year, whereas a dukawalla is charged a licence fee of between Kshs7,000 to Kshs10,000. It appears that the mama mboga is the one who pays every day and the dukawalla gets away for a very small fee of Kshs7,000 to Kshs10,000 yet we are saying that we are trying to give the poor a step up. I think the local authorities and devolution will bring that to order where people must pay according to what they do and their contribution to the country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other issue I was very pleased to hear in the Presidentâs Speech was about our national interests. Allow me to quote from his Speech. He said:- âWe have in the past not given priority to unveiling the system of set of values and principles that can define or become our national interest.â It is very important to be clear what our set of values and principles are. We do not even have a national dress as the Ugandans and Tanzanians. It appears that we have left the elephant to go out of the door and we are interested in the fleas of the den. We have not had a national dress. I know an attempt was made to design one, but that did not come through. I talked to Mr. Balala about it, but it appears that we were not able to crystallize on one of those. It makes a terrific impact, especially when you go abroad. I had the honour of being at the tourist fair in Berlin. We saw everybody walking around in their national dresses except the Kenyans. The other thing that I would like to bring to our attention is that some of the Bills we are looking forward being brought here must be for the people. I am very concerned about the way the youth and the elderly seem to have been left consistently out of the law. I think that is one important issue for the youth because of the future and the elderly because of the past. I was very concerned to hear yesterday that maybe one or two hon. Members of Lancaster House were alive. One of them was Mr. Shikuku who was not allowed to come through the gate until he started fighting with the guards whose job was to look at the card. Thank you, very much."
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