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    "id": 736913,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": ". The Constitution has given them that mandate, unlike in the previous Constitution where the former municipal councils needed to get some clearance from the Ministry of Local Government to increase any levies or charges. I come from a county with an urban centre. Under the Cities and Urban Centres Act, we wanted to establish a municipal board. We tried and pleaded with the sitting governor to give us a municipal board in Nakuru Town municipality, but he refused completely. He was thinking that he was going to share part of his responsibility with the municipal board members. Nakuru Town East Constituency contributes over 70 per cent of the county revenue, but when it comes to sharing of the revenue, we are never considered. We are given resources like other sub- counties which give almost nothing towards the revenue basket of Nakuru County. Therefore, we need to look at it in terms of actualisation and implementation of the Urban Areas and Cities Act. As I said, Nakuru could be having a municipal board that we could approach to ensure the development tourism, road network and other sectors. The challenge is to start thinking about how to actualise that very important Act, that talks so much about improving the urban set-up. It is important to conduct an evaluation of the Bill against Article 203(1) of the Constitution. It talks about the criteria which include factors like national interest, public debts and other national obligations. This is where the national Government needs to think in terms of how public debt can be managed. It is true that public debt brings a lot of economic development to our country, but at the same time, we need to look at the value we get from it so that we can enhance the development aspect of our economy. We need to take into consideration the various 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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