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    "id": 781761,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Losiakou",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Losiakou David Pkosing",
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    "content": "I want to plead with Hon. Members to read the Report, as you have said. People know how Bills are done. When it was committed to the Committee, we advertised for public participation. It is provided for in the law. I want to ask Hon. Members to look at the newspaper which advertised for public participation. It gave enough time for people to make contributions. Even Members from this House who come from those counties were not blocked from making submissions. At that level, they are considered as members of the public. If they made the requests which they are making here, then we would have invited all the MCAs to come and listen to this, but it was outside there. What would we have done? We had given them the opportunity which is provided for by law. It was there. People made submissions. If you look at my Report in Annexure1, it contains a memorandum from the public. It came from five counties that form the Nairobi Metropolitan Area. They appeared before our Committee and made submissions orally. Every county was represented. The person who brought the views is none other than the Governor of Kiambu County, on behalf of all the other governors. They came with their views, and we listened to them. The Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, House and Urban Development also came. Other members from the Ministry also came and presented their views to the Committee. They really agreed with the proposal, particularly Members from the five counties. For the record of the House, they had two concerns. They had a problem. They said that the Chair of the Nairobi Metropolitan Area Transport Authority who is proposed in this Bill to be the Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development should be co-chaired. This concern is captured. It is on record. They said that they want an amendment in the Bill. They agreed with most of the other proposals. They had only three issues. One of the issues was to allow the Chair of the Nairobi Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, who is the CS in charge of transport, to be co- chaired by one governor. They were represented by governors. We argued with them, and listened to them. When the Committee retreated, it agreed that it is better to have one leader. If we have two people co-chairing, it might be very difficult to drive the agenda forward. 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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