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    "id": 769023,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/769023/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
        "slug": "moses-wetangula"
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    "content": "These are cities where their government consciously set aside an area – of course there is Abuja in Nigeria. This is where the governments said: “We are moving the seat of our government in this area with serious restrictions on development, proper planning, zoning and so on.” However, even where the cities grew through historical process the evolution of planning required that you have to keep residential suburbs away from industrial areas which have hazardous waste and material from amenities such as hospitals. That is why the original Nairobi had an industrial area, which was not a residential suburb of Nairobi. Then we had the up-market neighborhoods like Muthaiga, Lavington, and Karen. Then we had middleclass suburbs, and in the early 1980s, the CDC in collaboration with the Government came up with middle class, fresh graduates and other workers’ suburbs. Then we had Buru Buru Phases One, Two, Three, Four and Five. Madam Temporary Speaker, this kind of planning is important for orderly management of public dwelling places and developments. Today, because of corruption and sometimes absolute negligence, somebody wakes up and builds a factory in the middle of a residential suburb and it is licensed to start running. Somebody wakes up and starts a water purification plant in the middle of a residential suburb. If you go to Ongata Rongai it has mushroomed. We also have Kitengela and Kiambu, which are the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
}