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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kasanga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Sylvia Mueni Kasanga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. Let me also give my contribution towards this Policy, which is, indeed, a wonderful document we are seeing here. It has covered all key areas that will make functional cities. I believe this is what we need and it is long overdue. What makes me happy about the recommendations given is that there is a huge contribution by the counties towards implementation of this document. That is a very positive move because everything is now boiling down to the counties themselves. The Senate Minority Leader gave a very good presentation and said a lot of the things that I wanted to say and I do not need to belabor some of them. But I have to comment because sometime I wonder what our role is as parliamentarians. Whereas there are Ministries which are supposed to take care of urban planning and infrastructure, there is a lot that we can do as parliamentarians to emphasise and make sure that it is done. For instance, as parliamentarians, we go out for benchmarking trips and when we come back, what contribution do we give from the lessons we learn from outside? So, when one parliamentarian is wondering why a town like Rongai does not have sewers for so long, what has he done about it? Our city planners have let us down a lot in most of our urban centres. We have heard in the earlier presentation that they give approvals for factories in the middle of residential areas. The question then is; what role do we play as parliamentarians? This is because most of the time, those factories are owned by parliamentarians, who push to get some of these approvals. It makes me wonder how much, then, do we as parliamentarians, love our people? The issues that are outlined here about urban planning, urban land environment, climate and the issue of sustainability are issues that matter to our people. Regarding the issue of sustainability, today there is a United Nations (UN) report that says how much pollution in Nairobi has escalated to the point where we should be worried about the health of our citizens. This is the case with urban infrastructure, not The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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