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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Hon. Leader of the Majority Party, how I wish you could have been patient a little. I have looked at the Report. This is where we, the National Assembly, are taken for a ride. If nobody has consulted you as a Member of the National Assembly seated here, yet it is about things that concern your people directly and there are claims from the Ministry that some people participated, surely, is that fair? Unless it is this thing known us opinion poll where everybody does it, but they never talk to you… Who are these people being consulted? What is this public participation? Out of the 17 MPs from Nairobi County none of them ever knew that there was a legislation coming. I do not know if people from Kiambu, Murang’a or Kajiado knew. I can tell you, Leader of the Majority Party, that I have seen that Report. They have purported to have seen people. What I am saying is that Members of the National Assembly are an integral part of this. They are stakeholders. If we have not been consulted, I think there is a problem with participation. Secondly, it could be anchored on Article 189 of the Constitution because these are shared functions. That is fine. The problem I have is that the County Governments Act has legislation on how the counties should run. The matatus, for example, will operate in Nairobi. If the Authority seems to suggest that there is another way, what will we do? The Authority will own buses in this country; and the Authority will remove the matatus that are there. How are these things going to run when the counties also have their systems? These are the questions we are asking! These are big issues, Leader of the Majority Party, if you do not mind, which we can grope with some honesty. I think this is a good Bill, but it should be uniform; it should be national. We should have a Metropolitan Area Transport Authority and then have schedules that discuss, say, Mombasa, Nakuru and all these other places because each is different from the other. Their transport needs are different. With that, I thank you for the little more time you have given me. I have done my research. The Chairman responsible for the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing, should not mind calling some of us, even at this late hour to interface with him so that we give him more ideas. Fortunately, you come from Lodwar and you may have not seen the problems of traffic jam in Nairobi. If you come to us, we would give you some practical information about how Nairobi is run; about how wealth in Nairobi is created; and, how those things should be handled. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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