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    "id": 771170,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/771170/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bunyasi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "sharing across counties but not have them have Executive roles in things that should be done by others. Having said all that, it is indeed very pathetic the way markets and towns are mushrooming and everybody can see that. There are many towns in this country whose roads look like what you find in Lamu, whose roads were built by virtue of ancientness of the city but not because of lack of planning. It was consistent with the infrastructure and transport arrangements of those days. However, you find modern towns growing even in capital towns of counties and so on in which you cannot move a car through the streets and in case of emergency, vehicles are unable to reach the needy people. Sewers cannot be easily laid because of lack of geometry that supports sewers and so on. These are overall principles that can be drawn, developed and enforced within the administrative and judicial systems within counties and that the national Government will simply share our best experiences and so on. If you put up a building or even assist a whole maze of buildings, what you do in high rainfall areas is going to be quite different from high temperature dry areas and so on. We are not a country that is very good with air condition and so on and so you cannot have one building that is going to be used all over. So, it completely frustrates me when you find that those things still come from Nairobi and nothing new in Nairobi is being done. We mentioned the role of universities and so on. They have been doing research for a long time. I am sure they have developed or they should have developed arrangements that suit each climate. There might even be cultural aspects related to it. For example, I was looking for simple things and designs of sanitary facilities in schools and if you look at the Ministry, they have basic drawings of rectangular structures. I had to go to the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) to get something that looked responsive to modern sanitary requirements and that has cost saving and so on. It did not come from the planners that do these things in a hierarchical way from Nairobi down to the local areas. For me, I would think this Bill needs serious audit before it is really proposed, otherwise we are just dealing with things because they are there and nobody will bother to read through them. If you read through it you just find how convoluted it is and how there is lack of clarity in it. Personally, what I would like to seek clearly is the national Government providing guidelines, that there are clear penalties not scattered all over but it should be clear even in that structure in the village that is being put up. If you drive along roads where I come from, you will find a market after every 50 metres. Everybody is building a kiosk, shop, pub and so forth. They are waiting someday for anybody to come and say that this ought to have been the land used or to say the implications of what you are doing are these on health, for example, which is a very important thing as I mentioned. So, instead of all these mess that is being done by technical people, highly qualified as they might be, I think that we need to have laws that are implementable, which others can buy in. The Second Schedule is an outline for inter-county and county physical development plans. Let me quickly compare that with the Third Schedule, which is dealing with matters that may be dealt with in local physical development plan. Under population, it talks of population growth and migration density, among other things. There is lack of symmetry even in the completeness of the document. The document still requires a lot more work. It may be relevant in terms of a topic..."
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