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    "id": 830547,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Farhiya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Farhiya Ali Haji",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. First and foremost, I thank Sen. Olekina for bringing it. They say nothing can stop an idea whose time has come and I think this is the right time for this Bill. If it is not the right time, it should have been yesterday. Nairobi City County contributes 60 per cent to the economy of this country. We should reduce traffic jams and have pavements for cyclists and pedestrians. For example, the distance from South C to this place is not that much and anybody can walk. However, there are no proper pavements and that is why people opt to drive. It is healthier for people to cycle or walk to work. We all know the benefits of the above two things. We are told that traffic jams deny the economy of this country Kshs50 million every day. Let me give you statistics for that. Assuming that we all work five days a week, because some months are longer, even the number of days that we work could be more. I will just take an average of 20 days a month and multiply by 12 months. If we sort traffic jams in Kenya, we will save Kshs12 billion every year. What can Kshs12 billion do for this country? It can build two referral cancer centres with complete equipment per year. That is what we were told by the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) during the budgeting process; that we only need Kshs6 billion to fully equip a cancer centre. We all understand the impact of that on our economy. You can multiply that and see the amount of money that Kenyans will save by not going abroad for treatment of cancer. If we construct two cancer centres each year, dividing by 47 counties, it will take us around 23 years to have a cancer centre in every county. That is long enough but we do not need cancer referral centres for every county. We can still work with five or six instead of wasting a lot of resources going abroad. There will also be a reduction of traffic by heavy commercial vehicles because parking bays for them will be provided. There is added value and the contribution to the economy in a city where such parking bays are provided. Under Clause 16 of this Bill, County Executive Committee (CEC) members will be empowered to make regulations. I would like the Senator to consider having the Cabinet Secretary in charge of Devolution and ASAL Areas, in consultation with the Council of Governors (CoG), so that all the cities in this country have a similar regulation The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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