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    "id": 837547,
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    "speaker_name": "Pokot South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Pkosing",
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        "legal_name": "Losiakou David Pkosing",
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    "content": "our report which hon. Members must have gotten opportunity to look at. It is saying that a city will have a population of above 250,000. As Hon. Duale said, that is debatable and Members can debate but that is the wisdom of our honourable Members. This will make our cities five if you were to look at it from population perspective. The second is about municipalities. We used to hear municipalities in the last Constitution and in the last Parliament but this Bill is proposing that we reduce the number from 250,000 to a minimum of 50,000. The third point is about towns. A town will be a place that will have a minimum population of 10,000. It can go to around 49,000. That will be a town. This is a very important Bill. I am very certain all hon. Members listening and willing to contribute have something called a town, a municipality or city. This is very critical. I am appealing to hon. Members that we contribute to this because this is our home. This is where most of our voters stay. A municipality will have a population of 50,000, a town will have 10,000 and market a minimum of 2000. I request this House to agree with them. Secondly, this amendment Bill is also creating structures. It is attempting to answer the question: Who manages those structures and institutions that have been created? Hon. Speaker, it is being proposed that a city be managed by city management board. This is under Clause 9 of the Bill. Municipalities will be managed through a municipal board. As the Leader of the Majority Party said, the Bill also went on to provide for criteria for creating boards. It is very important to tell hon. Members it will be very good for us to go through this Bill carefully so that when governors - because they have been given powers to establish these institutions - establish these institutions, hon. Members will be aware and can participate. Towns will be managed by town committees. You will see this in Clause 17 of the Bill. Of course, markets are going to be also managed by market committees. You will also see this in Clause 10. That is what this Bill in summary is attempting to do. So, what happened with our Committee? When we got this Bill as provided for in Standing Orders, this is what we did. It will be good for hon. Members to also follow with us. My Committee considered the Urban Areas and Cities (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bill No.4 of 2017) in our sitting that we held on 14th August 2018 and 5th September 2018. Pursuant to Standing Order No. 127(3A), the Committee invited the public through the Daily Nation and"
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