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    "content": "qualifications are even higher. I do believe that this Bill is trying to bring the sense that we manage and plan our cities well. I look forward to the Third Reading, Committee of the Whole and amending some of the clauses. I would like to support the Motion and hope that we can get to an orderly way in which we run our cities. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the United States of America and maybe the European towns, they are called cities. I lived in a city in the State of Illinois called Lincoln Illinois. It was a city of 16,000 people. That is a complete city which had everything including universities and libraries. In our situation, if we leave the cities to our counties for them to develop, they might never develop because of the allocation of the resources that we have. One of the biggest requirements of a city should be clean water, the sewerage systems and proper disposal of sewage. In Nairobi City, there is the big exhausters business, because there is no regular or central sewage system since everybody has a little place where they have their own sewage system and a septic tank. That is not good enough. We must then organise our towns which are coming up. Let us get the new cities, towns and urban areas correctly planned, have a proper centralised sewerage system so that people can move in there and we will have a city. A city which is well planned will have suburbs, which will be automatic. However, once you plan them, you know where the suburbs are going to be. Consequently, I do wish that we take this into account and begin to think how we are going to amend so that we can produce better cities. Nevertheless, I would like to hear more about the cities that are going to our rural areas. For every city, suburb, there will be a slum coming up. Why do slums come up? They come up because you need people to service your suburbs, you need people to work for you. Next to every nice area you will have a slum and, therefore, unless we plan them properly and allow for a dignified residence for people who work for us, we are going to have a slum. Slums are not planned hence they are going to cause fires and bring about a lot of difficult areas like in criminology. We need to find a solution if we do not want to amend this Bill. Now we can amend it when we are ready. I like it because there is already an existing law, and if we do not amend it, people will continue to run our cities the way they have been running them and it will not be good for us. So, I suggest that we support this Bill and make the necessary amendments at the Committee Stage. I wish to support."
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