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    "content": "capacity to effectively deliver essential services. The same applies to boards of cities and urban centres. You can see that there is even criteria for a market. The Committee concerned should actually ensure that the ultimate purpose of this Bill is to make sure that as Sen. Kihika strives to have Nakuru County as a city or urban centre, whatever, it should do so by meeting the criteria set out in this Act. It should be able to deliver services, make sure it is clean. One of the things that make you know that you are either in Nairobi, Mombasa or Nakuru is garbage which will tell you that you have arrived at a city centre or traffic jams and immediate floods when it rains. That is what demonstrates that you are either in a city or an urban centre. So, this Senate should be able to assist. If you make Gatwikira in Kibera a market, that meets this criterion, then we ought to develop it and make sure that people are making money in a clean way and that there are services that people can be proud of. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, former Senator, Professor and now the Governor of Kisumu County, may be the only Governor – I do not know about the rest –who has appointed a City Manager. This is because the law requires that every city must have a manager. Mombasa and Nairobi cities must have managers. It is not right the way they are. I applaud the Governor of Nairobi for taking it upon himself to ensure that he walks around when they are cleaning garbage. Although, ideally, they should not wait for that garbage to accumulate such that they look like they are working. Ideally, there should be a city manager. We should identify a manager whom we can ask questions. If the Nairobi City County Assembly wanted to ask questions of the waste; either disposal or garbage that is in our cities or Eastleigh Section III and all other places, I am sure they would not call the Governor to answer the questions but somebody else. There are times in this country where we used to have disposable--- I do not know what you call them but there are things that people used to leave outside their gates for disposal of waste. We used to have trucks that used to recycle waste all over the city. There is nothing to be proud of about these cities. The City of Nairobi, under Section 10 of the Urban Areas and Cities Act 2011--- I can see an amendment to Clause 10(a) here for the county governor to confer status of a market centre in areas that meet the criteria. Clause 10 itself is the only part in the Bill where Nairobi is put squarely under the national Government and the county government. That is the reason why when you look at the objects under Clause 10 in page 60, you will see that Nairobi is supposed to be a city which meets the criteria of being the center for diplomatic services. It says as follows: “The capital city shall provide infrastructure necessary to sustain the following; the seat of national Government, the offices of diplomatic missions, the efficient transport network connecting to rural areas and towns; and commerce and industry. The capital city shall decentralize its functions and the provisions of its service to the extent that is efficient”. So, instead of amending Clause 10 of the Bill to give the governor power to approve market centres, we should be amending Section 10 of the Urban Cities Act to ensure that it meets the original objective of making it the seat of national Government and the centre of market and industry. We should do that instead of making sure that The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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