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    "id": 783511,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/783511/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Let me also contribute to this Bill. First, there is this controversy as to whether this Bill should be before us or it is misplaced, so to speak. I have been looking at the Constitution and wondering. Looking at the functions and the responsibilities we have given to the counties, it is true that one of the functions of the counties is to look at issues regarding traffic, transport in terms of traffic management, street lighting, traffic and parking on county roads. Looking at it from that perspective, you can safely say that this is a function that should go to the County Government of Nairobi. Looking at the importance of Nairobi City, then one may also look at it from the point that it is a national issue and a national concern. That negates what our “Chief Justice” T. J. Kajwang’ mentioned about us being rural. When it comes to Nairobi, we can never be rural. It concerns all of us because Nairobi controls the largest percentage of the economy of this country. We have interest and a stake in it. Hon. Duale read Article 189 of the Constitution which allows the county and the national Government to liaise. Let me read."
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