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    "content": "to deal with boundaries, urban areas and cities review. It will be established if the CS, on his own motion, thinks that there needs to do a review of an urban area, a city, a town or a centre or when there is an application from the county governments to the CS to establish the same. This is a good idea to have a proper mechanism of determining boundaries of towns and urban areas because they keep changing. However, there might be some problems. In the current Act, an urban area, a city or a town, for that matter, is defined as an entity under the governance of the county governments. Therefore, what is the purpose of subjecting the determination of boundaries of towns and urban areas to the national Government? The national Government does not have a role in creating cities and urban areas. There are no extra resources it will give to a county as a result of changing their boundaries. The Standing Committee on Devolved Government and Intergovernmental Relations must relook at this to see whether it is necessary for the CS to be involved and what wisdom informs such a move. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have Kapsowar Town, for example, with less than 10,000 people. There is also a debate whether we will use the population of the people during the day or at the night, to determine boundaries of cities and urban areas. The last census and the successive census exercises used to be done at night. When it is done at night, it cannot give a true reflection of a town’s population. A town like Nairobi, for instance, has an extra of over one million people during the day. Many people travel from their villages to come and work here during the day. Every morning, they tell their relatives that they are going to work and live in Nairobi yet they live in Ongata Rongai in Kajiado County. Others live in Gachie and Kiambu Town itself in Kiambu County. Therefore, the pressure that Nairobi has during the day is not comparable to what Tharaka Nithi has during the day. Therefore, governing a place like Nairobi is not easy because of all these people from Thika, Murang’a, Nyeri, Limuru, Kikuyu Town, Kajiado, Kitengela, Machakos, Mombasa and other places. They come to Nairobi during the day and go back to where they live at night. When they come, they create a pressure here; they need more toilets here. There is no one who stays for the whole day without using the bathroom maybe twice. So, sanitation becomes a problem in Nairobi. They bear the brand of a dirty city. However, the person criticising Nairobi as a dirty city has brought his dirt from Kiambu, Kajiado and other places to Nairobi."
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