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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "security issues. This is to ensure that there is protection of the national Government and international interests, it being the Capital City and the city of diplomatic institutions that are based here. Therefore, Madam Temporary Speaker, when this Committee goes and sits down, we must give Nairobi a lot of attention. That attention should include the implementation of the Urban Areas and Cities Act; and the existing agreements on infrastructure between the national Government and counties. It is not just Nairobi, but many counties across the country are passing off and are hiding under projects that have been done by the national Government without doing their own. This is accountability without proper agreements. If you go to your county and to all other counties, you will find county government officials always announcing national Government projects and pretending to be inspecting and ‘launching’ them as a way of hiding their inability to perform their own projects in their counties. Madam Temporary Speaker, I believe that when this Committee brings a report here, they should do so with express agreements between the Nairobi City County Government and the national Government. These agreements must include the expectations and deliverables of the Nairobi City County Government; and those of the national Government. It should also show how much money was put into those projects and the administrative structures that have been put in place to ensure that the two entities have accountability. Finally, it should show what the complementary donation or support from the counties is. Secondly, Madam Temporary Speaker, we also need to think through on how we will ensure--- I saw Richard Quest – who is not a small person, but a renowned figure and a business reporter at the Cable News Network (CNN) – tweeting from Nairobi that the police switch off round-about traffic lights, which causes traffic jams in Nairobi. In the questions that Sen. Sakaja has raised, we will want the Committee to tell us whether this is true; that traffic lights are switched off with the intention of creating employment for traffic officers; or whether there is a better reason. We also want to know how we can provide different management structures to ensure that traffic jams in Nairobi are dealt with. Madam Temporary Speaker, I would also like to know about one unique phenomenon to Nairobi. When it rains, even if it drizzles, there is a complete traffic snarl up in Nairobi. What is the relationship between rain and traffic jams in Nairobi? Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker."
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