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    "id": 830560,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Pareno",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Judith Ramaita Pareno",
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    "content": "Yes, Madam Temporary Speaker. I am Ramaita. I thank you for allowing me to contribute to this Bill. I rise to support my brother, Sen. Olekina and congratulate him for bringing up this Bill, the County Planning (Roads, Pavements and Parking Bays) Bill (Senate Bills No. 18 of 2018). At one point, I was wondering about a Bill that we passed the other day which was on the county roads. I do not know whether we called it Roads and Management Bill but the Bill was also passed by this Senate. I note that this Bill is not just about the roads. There is a bit of roads but it talks about something that we did not talk about in the other Bill and that is pavements and parking bays. Lately, if you have been observant, you must have noticed that we have started creating what had been omitted in our road infrastructure and that is the walk ways, pedestrian ways and the pavements. We are now trying to create what should have been there right from the beginning. I like this Bill because it is emphasizing on what we should have in place right from the beginning and not coming up with them as an afterthought like we have done lately in most of our roads and in cities. Sometimes, I have been on the wrong side of the law. When you drive around Nairobi in the roads that we used to use like five years ago, you will find that the road that used to have an entry has been closed and you get confused. The Bill that I was referring to earlier was called the Kenya Roads Bill. It is the one that we passed and the one that I was referring to. Lately, you will try to use a road that you used sometime back in this city and you will find that the exit of that road has either been changed to be one way or there is no exit anymore or the entry has been changed such that you cannot enter from the side that you were using before. This is because we came to realize that there was so much congestion in this city and so much that we could have done by rearranging the infrastructure in a manner that has been done right now. I like this Bill because it initiates this process right from the beginning. You do not have to wait until a town is congested and people are crisscrossing for you to realize that you needed to have had one exit or no entry or exit on a particular road. That is why we have had to redo a lot of roads in Nairobi because of not providing for this at the planning level. Planning means that, as you put into the designing and implementation, you will have come up with something implementable and good for that particular time or city, 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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