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    "id": 831581,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 129,
        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
        "slug": "james-orengo"
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    "content": "There was a master plan for Nairobi City County in 1948. If we had kept that master plan and used it for the development of this city in terms of infrastructure, we would not be having the kind of jams we experience in Nairobi City County every day. Uhuru Highway opposite Serena Hotel used to be called Queen Elizabeth Way. There is a line of constructions which have been erected and developed along that part of what is now Uhuru Highway which should not have been there in the first place. In fact, if you look at those plans from the city towards Embakasi and the Airport, we should have been having six lanes on one side of the Highway. We would be having a highway containing on one side, a dual carriageway with six lanes on both sides. Madam Temporary Speaker, we are very proud to see what has been done in the City of late. Indeed, there were those plans for Nairobi City. Nairobi City is a choked city. If something happens in the middle of the City of Nairobi, there are very few exits from its centre. If you go to our estates also, there are areas where vehicles and equipment from the fire department cannot access in cases of emergency. It will be absolutely impossible to access those areas. The tragedy is that from 200 years ago, people have been planning to develop. However, in this part of the world, we are trying to catch up with planning. We have not even started developing them. Ours is the other way round. A scholar that I really respected who died just a few years ago used to say in the cosmic order and the way the universe is, there is no God. It is just some universal or cosmic order that is there. To him, it was the laws of physical science that keep the stars, planets and the galaxies together. Even in nature, there is a plan. Look at a beautiful flower anywhere, its existence is not just by an accident. This applies to even the animals and human beings. The other day, I was looking at a species of monkeys in Japan who live in winter and they know how to survive in winter. They go for warm baths in some of those natural geysers. Madam Temporary Speaker, nature has some order. However, we, as human beings are trying to destroy it. In doing our own work of developing, we do not have any plan to do so. This Bill is trying to recreate what we lost. I was looking at Clause 5 of the Bill which says- “The county executive committee member shall –” The position of the CEC member has been defined in the Bill. It is the member who is responsible for matters relating to county roads. So, there are mandatory requirements that the CEC member responsible for roads must do in order to ensure that our roads, pavements and parking bays are properly planned and developed. However, also add to the needs of our population, whether we live in the urban or rural areas. Through this Bill, we will now have a legal framework of what is required of a CEC member in charge of roads. If you go to many of these counties – be it my county of Siaya – and look for the CEC member in charge of roads, there is no legislative framework other than what we have in place which is inadequate and it requires of them to do certain things for the community in terms of roads and pavements. I was seeing something which I also deem to be very significant; the use of pavements and designated parking areas. 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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