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    "content": "we want to cure by this National Urban Development Policy. If leaders and the Government of the day are serious, this is something that should see the light of day. Do not even get concerned about the two million people who come to the City of Nairobi. You will be surprised that if you go to a town like Nyansiongo, which is a fairly big urban town with a tea factory, there are no facilities like common toilets for people doing business. If I was to be a governor of that lovely county called Nyamira, those are some of the issues that I would address. I hope that once we pass this policy, our governors and leadership at the county level will start to address some of these mundane issues. They look small, but mean a lot to our people. Talking of even provision of piped water, how many of the 47 counties have full connection to piped water? I am sorry to say that most of the county headquarters do not even have a functioning piped water system. People are still living in the Stone Age era, where they have to go to the river. No wonder, in most of these county headquarters you rarely get women with curly kit because they have to carry water on their heads from the river. Therefore, it is a high time that the leadership, us included, became proactive to ensure that we have urban cities that we can all be proud of. I once travelled to Hong Kong and you will be surprised. People there live in skyscrapers but in the evening, they all stream to some fields which have been designated for training. You would find people who are as old as 80 years streaming to those fields to walk. There are designated places for young people to play football or basketball and that is what we call proper civilization Madam Temporary Speaker, I fully second this policy and I want to state that the timing is right because we want to transform this country. Devolution was meant to ensure that we attract more professionals, investors and business people back to our counties so that we do not crowd Nairobi City County. There is no way this would be achieved unless we also make those urban cities attractive. I do not need to borrow what the Senate Leader of Majority has said. I do not need to drive all the way to Nyamira County if we had good connections in terms of the train network and airports. The only way I can reach my people in Nyamira County is unless I drive all the way wasting a whole five hours. However, if we had trains connecting us, I would simply make my payment and at about at 7.30p.m. get a fast lane train. I would then find myself in Nyamira County and mourn with my constituents and the following day, I will take a train back to the city. That is the kind of vision that we us leaders should have for this country so that devolution can have a meaning to our people who live in the countryside. On the issue of naming of streets, for example, you cannot even be given an address of a county headquarters when you want to go and great somebody. In Nyamira County, we do not even have one named street. So, if I want to invite the Senate Leader of Majority to Nyamira County, I cannot tell him that find me in a hotel which is in a street called abc. Can you imagine? We should not have that situation as a country. We need to have proper planning for our citizens. I would also suggest the naming of streets in Nairobi City County. There was a time when I was in one of the cities in the United States of America (USA), San Francisco. There, streets would lead you to a place. For instance, if somebody is at 23rd The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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