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    "id": 837531,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/837531/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": "The Urban Areas and Cities (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bill No.4 of 2017 was read the First time in the House on 19th April 2018. This Bill proposes to amend the Urban Areas and Cities Act, 2011, which was passed by the 10th Parliament to review the criterion provided for classifying areas as cities, municipality, town and market centres. Before you call an area a city, municipality, town or market centre, the classification is provided for in the Urban Areas and Cities Act, 2011. The Senate has seen that a review is necessary since the criterion which is provided in the Act has not been achieved by the county governments under the prevailing circumstance. In other words, the county governments under devolution have met some resistance or headwinds in the implementation of this law. The Senate in its wisdom, and as a custodian of county governments, felt that we need to amend that Act. The proposed amendments in the Bill will enable county governments to efficiently and effectively deliver services in areas designated as urban and cities. That is the genesis of the amendment to the Urban and Cities Act, 2011."
}