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    "content": "I had the honour of the distinction to be Kenya’s chief negotiator in terms of the new Urban Agenda. The agenda is a paradigm shift from the casual way of doing things so that we are able to create wealth in a progressive and much more organised way. However, the way they want to do this in Samburu County by the governor declaring that it is already in the status of a municipality, is the wrong way of doing it. It is a way of trying to gain access to the conditional grants that are captured in the Kenya Urban Support Programme (KUSP). Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, those resources are available, but predicated upon certain fundamental principles. One is that before you set up a municipality, you want to agree with the community around and they are agreeable to its being set up. Secondly, it has had the effect of changing the land which is freehold to leasehold. Many of these communities around Maralal may not have the wherewithal to pay rates that will be established, let alone coping with the vagaries of weather which is already a menace in itself. That is the point of resistance in the first place. Residents of this region cannot accept a situation that will turn freehold land to leasehold. That is the first impediment that we are already experiencing in this Petition. Thirdly, population dynamics do not justify the setting up of a municipality in---"
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