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    "content": "We will need to be convinced as to why we need to make these amendments yet for the past few years that we have had the Urban Areas and Cities Act in operation, a lot of the provisions therein have not been implemented. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you look at the Urban Areas and Cities Act as it exists, we have provisions within the Act that provide for the better management of Nairobi, Kisumu, Eldoret or Nakuru? Which is the third city? Mombasa City is also a city county. Devolution is based on a principal called subsidiarity where a service is best offered in the lowest area that is compatible with the benefit area of that service. With that in mind, by now we would have expected a City like Nairobi to have city managers or a division of boroughs from which members or residents can access services. You would have Nairobi south, north, east and west with the same number of services as provided for in the Urban Areas and Cities Act. This is now the sixth year of devolution and we have not seen any implementation. This is a Bill that was passed before the first governors came on board. We would have expected at this point that if you are in the rural parts of Kisumu you will access the same level of services as somebody at the centre of the city because the subsidiarity principle would have been followed and the services would have been offered where they are required."
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