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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": "entire infrastructure needed as a city in Africa and East Africa whose transport system must be up to date, efficient, effective and sustainable and you must have seen what we go through. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, our friends, the Ethiopians have done better. They have serious transport system in the City of Addis Ababa. They have metro trains. They have built a passenger train from the City of Djibouti to Addis Ababa, which is over 700 kilometers. So, this Bill basically wants to create that public transport system within the Nairobi Metropolitan area that is integrated, fast, effective and efficient which is sustainable in the long run. These are the highlights of this Bill: Clause 5 of the Bill states that the headquarters of the Authority shall be in Nairobi City: Clause 6 provides for the function of the Authority. What are the daily functions of this Authority? It includes development of an integrated mass rapid transport system and development of a bus rapid transit system which shall be a priority. So, even within metropolitan city of all these five counties, there must be development of a bus rapid transit system. The Authority will have the function to handle the implementation of a comprehensive traffic management plan. Even our traffic flow in the city and within the neighbouring countries is not organised. So, this Authority will come up with a comprehensive traffic management plan. It will have the powers to regulate and enter into agreements with the operators and service providers within the transport system. This Authority will also have the powers and the function to regulate the parking of transport facility on specific declared corridors among many other functions. Clause 7 provides for the powers of this Authority which includes entering into agreement or partnership with other institutions and bodies for the purpose of carrying out its mandate. So, this Nairobi Metropolitan Area Transport Authority has a function under the proposed law to enter into partnership with other bodies. It has the powers to protect, maintain and improve all declared public transport corridors. So, the free flow of transport corridors, the efficient flow and the sustainable flow of traffic within those declared public transport corridors are powers given to this Authority. It has been given under this proposed law the powers to charge levies on the users of this transport system. It has the powers to establish companies for the purpose of carrying out its functions among others. Clause 8 talks about the establishment of Nairobi Metropolitan Area Council which shall be the apex body. It shall consist of the Governors of Nairobi, Machakos, Kajiado, Kiambu and Muranga; the Cabinet Secretaries for Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development and Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury. Clause 9 talks about the function of the Council which is the apex body. Its function includes among others, declaring by gazette notice the specific Nairobi Metropolitan Area Transport Authority transport corridors. So, the power to gazette is with the Council. Clause 10 establishes the Board of the Authority which shall consist of the Chairperson, Principal Secretaries responsible for Transport, Roads and Finance, County Executive Committee (CECs) responsible for transport in each of the five counties and three independent persons with the knowledge and experience in specific areas of expertise. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there was a time when there was an outcry in the country because the Minister appointed three persons. I am told he is supposed to appoint three independent persons with knowledge and experience in specific areas of expertise. Those three persons happened to come from one region and one community. I urge the Minister in the good spirit of the famous handshake of last Friday that sets the ball rolling for inclusivity to reappoint those three members. If they come from Muranga, he should put one from Kiambu and one from Garissa; or one from Kiambu and one from Mombasa; and/or one from Meru and one from 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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