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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move: THAT, the Nairobi Metropolitan Area Transport Authority Bill, 2017 be read a Second Time. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we had a good agreement with the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing that he is going to be here. I hope he is watching and will rush to the House. This Bill seeks to establish an Authority under Article 189(2) of the Constitution. This Article is the one that provides for a framework of cooperation between the national Government and the county governments in the performance of the functions and exercise of powers. So, this Bill draws its powers from Article 189(2). The process of establishing the Authority began long time ago before this Government came into place for a second time. In the last Government, on 21st October 2014 when a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the governments of the five Nairobi metropolitan area counties which include Nairobi, Kajiado, Machakos, Murang’a and Kiambu on one hand and the Cabinet Secretaries for Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development on the other hand, this paved way for establishment of the Nairobi Metropolitan Area Transport Authority Steering Committee through Gazette Notice No.1093 of 2nd February, 2015. This Committee drew its membership from both the counties involved and the national Government. The same Committee developed a Bill with the assistance of the secretariat. That Bill went through all the stakeholders in the five counties and then went to the Cabinet which approved it for onward transmission to the Legislature which made us publish it. The purpose of this Bill is to establish the Nairobi Metropolitan Area Transport Authority whose objective is to oversee the establishment of an integrated, efficient, effective and sustainable public transport system within the Nairobi Metropolitan area. Nairobi is a serious economic and investor hub and has what it takes. It has the best financial services. It has the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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