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    "content": "these centres whether they are small or otherwise, should be classified as municipalities. We all know that failing to plan is planning to fail. The population threshold for a municipality has been set too high. That means that a municipality would have to grow its population without any plan and end up with shanties and we will count the shanties as being part of the municipalities. We should plan all of them to be municipalities by virtue of the fact that they are headquarters of counties. To be able to grow them, we need masterplans which provide adequate area, land size and other facilities that have been suggested that there must be bare minimum facilities, not immediately, but to be developed over time. Counties will not achieve that with the resources that they have. We should have a plan whereby counties will be given conditional grants or conditional allocations to carry out proper masterplans of the townships to municipality status and even construct certain facilities like tarmacking roads and so forth. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, a city like Abuja started from nowhere but because the national Government put money in it, it is now a city just as important as Lagos. That is the way we should move. In some municipalities – because of growth in population and devolution – there is a lot of business going on. There are so many businesses and a lot of investors. Counties are inviting investors to invest but there is no land. It is important that the national Government takes its responsibility to support counties because the Constitution also provides that it should support counties by way of acquiring more land or expanding the land so that there is land for municipalities or counties to allocate to investors. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is no more land for a municipality like Kitale. With the resources that we get, there is no way we can get adequate land."
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