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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, Clause 11 talks about renewal of sites and that is okay. However, I do not know what Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. would want to do with the people out there who have erected concrete platforms on public land and call them their sites. When you want to put your billboard there to say that the Kenya African National Union (KANU) will win in Kericho, you do not pay the local authority but the man who erected the concrete slab when he does not own the land. I would like to see how the sponsor of the Bill would deal with such situations because there are people who own no land or nothing but have their hands in the pocket collecting money from everybody, claiming that the sites are theirs. If it is public land, then, it is held by the county government in trust for the people of the county. So, any income generated out that land must benefit the people of the county and not individuals. I do not know how you would frame that but I think it is something worth looking at. Madam Temporary Speaker, the maintenance of sites is very important. You have seen some advertisement billboards skewed as if somebody is ready to take off for a sprint and they remain like that forever. They are an eyesore to look at. There must be a penalty, not just that you must maintain a site. If you put up a billboard that becomes an eyesore to the public and you become a public nuisance, then you must face some legal penalty apart from being asked to remove your billboard. Madam Temporary Speaker, there used to be a billboard – if you ever used the road – to western Kenya, after Lord Delamere Farm in Naivasha, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale would know---. There is an old man with a big hat walking slowly. The billboard says; “Believe me you, you will get there,” warning speeding drivers. I always stopped to look at that beautiful billboard because it was so good. The old man seems to be 80 years old and he walks slowly like a Pokot herder and he says; “Believe me you, you will get there.” The billboard was left to fade until it was a horrible thing to look at."
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