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    "id": 783514,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/783514/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "My understanding is that Nairobi Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (NMSTA) will be considered as a joint authority between the county government and the national Government bringing in the Cabinet Secretary at the council together with some governors. I have an issue with the governors who have been brought here and I will mention that later, together with the Chairman who will be appointed. Looking at it that way, then it meets the threshold of that constitutional provision of being a joint authority. There are three fundamental questions that need to be addressed. One, if you are creating a legislation to handle metropolitan matters, you need to ask yourself whether it is only Nairobi that is of concern to us. That is a question that we should not run away from. Many of us have gone to Mombasa. Mombasa faces the same challenges as Nairobi in terms of traffic management and services that we are creating this Authority to handle. When you go to Eldoret, 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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