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    "content": "necessary to provide that the Nairobi City County Government will have agreements with the national Government to ensure that infrastructure, security and so on will be taken care of in a manner that will ensure the national Government makes contributions. Madam Temporary Speaker, the problem with the first Nairobi City County under the 2010 Constitution was that people expected Governor Kidero to always be bickering with the President. Even when Gov. Kidero became a reasonable man and tried to work with the national Government, there were many people who tried to say that he was a mole. It was not because he has a choice but because the law says he has to partner with the national Government and no matter who is the President of Kenya, Nairobi City County has to be managed jointly with the national Government. That is why I commend Gov. Mbuvi, his Nairobi City County Government and the President with his Cabinet Secretaries for immediately putting together a framework that is more transparent to ensure that Nairobi City County is developed. This city is not an easy place for anyone to manage. The population pressure that the rest of Kenya is putting on Nairobi makes it a challenge. But it is not Nairobi alone; we have Mombasa, Kisumu cities. One of the areas in the Urban Areas and Cities Act, 2011 that has never been operationalised was the one that says we must demarcate what is a municipality, city, town and village. For example, in my own county of Elgeyo-Marakwet someone would tell you that he has gone to Tot town. Actually, Tot is not a town but a small shopping centre, but it may be a town in future. You would hear people talking about Mosoriot city or town, yet it is just a small centre where Sen. Cherargei used to exercise his political prowess before he was elected the Senator for Nandi County. So, there must be clear demarcations of these entities as per the Urban Areas and Cities Act. This policy provides a basis for anchoring future legislation and actions that will be implemented by national and county Governments. The first part of this policy talks about urban governance; that there is need to promote effective governance and management of the urban area. The issue here is to ensure that there is qualified urban political leadership that is able to run the city. Already people are impatient with Gov. Sonko and he has been in office for only four months. Most people voted for him because they thought that fixing the dirt in Nairobi City and making it what it used to be; the City in the sun, would take place quickly, after we have mismanaged the city for so many years. The Governor of Nairobi has a big responsibility to ensure that he deals with the issue of cartels and dumping of waste. These are big issues in this City that cannot be dealt with by one person. There must be stakeholder engagement and civic education. Citizens must be sensitized because throwing dirt everywhere is not good manners, but it is being done by grownups; people who are above 18years. We cannot “dirtify” the city and expect the national Government or county government to clean it. What is important is to ensure that the citizens themselves are at the forefront in doing the right thing. The county government of course has a responsibility to provide the framework, whether it is providing the dustbins, the vehicles that carry the waste or a system for buying incinerators. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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