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    "speaker_name": "February 28, 2018 SENATE DEBATES 35 Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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    "content": "Unfortunately, there was a memorandum signed between the Kenyan Government and the UN-Habitat to deal with this problem. I happen to know that at the end of the new urban agenda which was passed in Quito in Ecuador in 2016, subsequently, the General Assembly was seized with the matter. For now, this has become a global policy. What does the new agenda look like? What does it mean in this country, Kenya? What are the dimensions of this new global agenda or what does it entail? One of the shocking figures is that, the growth and development of new slums is at the rate of 4.4 per cent. If we are not careful as a country, we will turn the entire nation into a slum- dwelling land and region. Thirdly, one should understand that in order to stem off the rural-urban migration, we must be in a position to set up goods and services that will attract investors to these rather informal settlements. What does it entail? The communities must be mobilised. You cannot be talking of settling the informal settlements without mobilisation of the community. You must have very clear and adequate spatial planning for any urban centre, town or city. This has double effects. When you have clear and adequate spatial planning and not the kind of planning we have today which is haphazard, inefficient and cannot attract anything, then you have a gold mine in that kind of planning. If you look at the characteristics of a town these days, people are running in for the plots in the frontline. They will have no regards with the plots which are in the second or third line. I am hoping that our Konza Techno City will take advantage of the new urban agenda in planning. I took the trouble, some two months ago, to go to Konza. I do not know where it belongs; whether it is in Machakos County or Makueni County where Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. comes from, but I believe they are all integrated counties. In 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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