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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Nyikal",
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    "content": "controversy that we often have. Those should have been seen earlier before the Bill came to us. I know the Speaker had ruled on the issue of constitutionality and sub judice . Be that as it may, there are areas that should have been looked at. For instance, how will this Bill relate to the other Acts that are already in place: The Cities and Urban Areas Act, the County Government Act, the Inter-governmental Relations Act and the Traffic Act? I have looked at the Bill and those have not been taken into consideration, and they need to be looked into. It is unfortunate that this Bill has controversy about employment, but that has been ruled out. It relates to a legal notice that gave authority for that employment. Those are the things we should look into. The issue of other urban areas being proposed is something that can be taken care of in the future. I said this is a well-intentioned Bill and its objects are to provide integrated, sustainable public transport within Nairobi and the Metropolis. Nobody can argue with that. The people of Nairobi have long suffered. In the evening from 5.00 p.m. to nearly 10.00 in the night, people are stuck in this town. They cannot move to their homes. That is something we should look at. Children wake up at 3.00 in the morning. This is something that we owe to the children and, therefore, we should look into. We should learn that when schools are closed, there is relatively little traffic. It means that the people suffering most, when we do not look at our traffic, are the children. Therefore, this is an important thing to look into. As Hon. Wanyonyi has mentioned, this City had the best transport. Some people may be old enough to know that what is now Hilton Hotel was Harding Street and there was a bus park where each bus had a bay with a notice of when the next bus would come. Indeed, the next bus would be there at the stated time. All these routes we are seeing like No.7, 8, 13 and so on were done in such a way to cover the whole city. From Kenyatta to Jericho there was bus No.7, while from Jerusalem to Kabete there was bus No.22. You did not have to get out of the bus in town if you were travelling. Tickets were bought in advance. It was an integrated system and so you could come from Homa Bay with a ticket which allowed you to use the bus system. Even in Mombasa, you could still use the ticket. That is the integration that we obviously need. That system killed by the matatus when the Transport Licensing Board (TLB) allowed them to operate. We cannot run a city of the magnitude of Nairobi with matatus that carry 10 or 15 people at a go. It just cannot work! And then run on purely commercial basis without interests of the residents at heart and no regulation to control them! For that reason, I think this Bill is good. I have given the reservations that I have about it. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is not that there is no money to do this job. It has been an issue of lack of political will. Think of all those people who stay in town late into the night each and every one of them standing at a street corner with, say, Kshs100, waiting for a"
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