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    "id": 811382,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/811382/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "July 4, 2018 SENATE DEBATES 28 The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
        "slug": "kipchumba-murkomen"
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we now have the Urban Areas and Cities Act that makes Marimanti to actually become a shopping centre because of its size, just like Kapsowar and Tot which do not qualify now to be called towns. Sometimes in our villages we call them towns and cities. When we want to baptise our place as a very beautiful place we call it a city, not knowing like Sen. Sakaja said before, that there are many poor parts of this City. There is assumption that something beautiful is called a city, which is not true. Sometimes there is an ugly part of a city. These classifications we have here are important for us because it informs the next topic, which is the issue of division of resources. However, before I come to the issue of resources, the national Government, under this law, creates three agencies that will deal with the management of these roads. We have the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) whose responsibility is to deal with Classes S, A and B roads, which I do not want to repeat myself on. There is nothing different about the management of the KeNHA. It is similar to the current one in terms of structure. The board is almost similar to the current one, except in the case where the LSK used to get represented before in the tenure of Sen. Omogeni. I can see the Bill provides that it is the Institute of Engineers of Kenya and the Institute of Surveyors of Kenya and two other persons appointed by the Cabinet Secretary. That is similar in both the Kenya National Highways Authority (KenHA) and the Kenya National Urban Roads Authority which takes in the classification herein provided above, Class H and J of the roads are under the Kenya Urban Roads Authority. To be frank and as a matter of idealism, there was a time I used to ask why have Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) or KenHA? Over time, we with devolution, I have realized that the demands for construction of a road, even a small tarmac road of two kilometres, we have to get loans. However, it needs the support of the national Government to be able to do so. Nairobi County government is expected to do most of the roads in Nairobi. However, Kenyans are demanding from the Government of President Uhuru Kenyatta to do most roads in this country. You will realize that KURA is doing most of the roads in Nairobi County because this city is the Capital City of the Republic of Kenya. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was in the task force on Devolved Governments. When we realized that Nairobi had been made a county, we had to provide the Urban Areas and Cities Act. We felt there must be an agreement between Nairobi County and the national Government on how to manage matters of infrastructure and security in the city because it is a capital city. I have seen some people laughing at Senator---"
}