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    "content": "especially in the cities. There is huge traffic in Nairobi and Mombasa, clearly as a result of lack of proper planning. It is really important for us to have proper planning for urban areas. Since the policy talks about the counties also doing their own planning, you will find that even in those counties there is no proper planning. When I went round campaigning in Isiolo County, most of the estates there do not have roads that can even enable patients to be taken to hospitals during emergencies. That is very critical. If estates cannot connect to the main roads, hospitals or city centres, it shows that something is wrong. We need to plan properly. This policy should be cascaded down to the county governments, so that they can plan properly. Poor housing is another challenge that we face when we do not plan properly. People take advantage of that and come up with poor housing which needs to be taken care of. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if we do not plan properly, there is an effect on the environment. We need to have a place where we are dumping our garbage. If you go round, even in Nairobi today, people are just dumping their garbage everywhere. This has to be stopped. If we do not take care of our environment, it means that we are going to have problems, especially, in terms of health and so many other hazards that come with that. If we do not have proper planning, there is a challenge of unemployment. Many Kenyans, especially, in Nairobi City County, so many Kenyans are jobless. We need to plan on how we are going to create employment opportunities in counties. There should be proper planning and management to make sure that the population within those cities and counties is taken care of, and that we do not have issues of insecurity where people who are jobless end up doing other crooked things. This policy framework is very important. It will guide the kind of cities and counties we should have. This is in line with the current Constitution and other legislations. The policy provides for the management of urbanization and urban development in Kenya. If we do this, it means it is a key success to us, as a country, and also to our counties. Mr. Speaker, Sir, planning for financial management is also very important. If we do not plan for finances, then we are not able to take care of our urban development. It is really important for us to have financial management in place to make sure that we have planned properly for our counties. If we have proper planned cities and counties, it encourages investors to come to invest in our country. However, if we do not do that, it means that this will discourage the investors who are planning to come and invest in our country. It is very important for us to set aside land so that we can put different institutions in place. If we do not do that, then we will have the challenges of utilizing the taxpayers’ money that is meant for other purposes to compensate private landowners. This is the case, especially for the roads that we are creating today; so many people are compensated and moved from the road reserves. If we have proper planning in place, then we can create land that is used for different purposes in place. Mr. Speaker, Sir, security is also another factor, especially in disaster and risk management. This is something that we need to consider. If we do not do that, then we The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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