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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Yussuf Adan",
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        "legal_name": "Adan Haji Yussuf",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also take this opportunity, first of all, to offer my condolences to the people of Nyeri and the family of the late governor and to Kenya as a whole. I support this Motion. In the area I come from, there is very big movement of people from the pastoral set-ups to the urban centres. This is maybe due to climate change, the drought that has affected the people and loss of livestock as a result of drought and other catastrophes. All of a sudden, there is mass movement of people from the pastoral areas to the urban centres. Unless proper planning of urbanisation is done and those people who have been used to pastoral lives are guided and shown how to survive within the urban set-up, that may lead to other disasters such as poor planning and poor waste management. People come and settle in those open areas within the urban centres without regard to where the roads and service lines will be. In the case of a situation whereby there is a fire somewhere, even if there is a fire brigade system in an urban centre, reaching those areas becomes quite impossible and, therefore, nothing can be salvaged at all. In some areas, as people stop pastoralism and come to the urban centres; they come and settle the way they used to settle like in the boma in the bush. Therefore, you see plots which are rectangular, triangular, square and all sorts of funny shapes. Without having proper urban planning and systems in place, this may end up becoming some serious disaster later in life. Therefore, with proper planning, we need somewhere where our children can play. Playing grounds for children are very important. When we raise children and just put them in concrete places as if they are in a cell, those children will grow up as very dangerous citizens of this country. But when you expose them and give them a piece of land where they can play and children of the neighbourhood can come together, they can learn from one another, adapt to one another and end up becoming good citizens of this country as they grow. Therefore, getting playing grounds for children within the urban centres where people settle is very important. All in all, I support this Motion. Urbanisation or proper planning of urban centres is a very important and timely issue that has come up. We should support it by all means."
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