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    "id": 837553,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Pokot South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Pkosing",
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        "legal_name": "Losiakou David Pkosing",
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    "content": "Those are the two gaps that we realised through our deliberations as a Committee and through public participation. If we do that in my view, we will have achieved the two main gaps in the following ways. One, we will have created the breast milk for the child and therefore the cities will grow well. Secondly we will have also given timelines to governors so that they do not take their sweet time. The creation of these towns is not for the benefit of the governors, it is for the benefit of the people of Kenya and the residents in those counties. Therefore, they are not going to take their sweet time, we have given them a maximum of three years. If they do not establish those institutions within three years, it will return to the national Government. So, it is up to them. As I conclude, let me plead with Hon. Members in this House to agree with the Senate and take this opportunity to say to our sister House, the Senate, that as we process some of these Bills quickly as the National Assembly, they should reciprocate. There are a number of Bills from the National Assembly which are in the Senate and are not moving. One of them is my Bill; Roads Bill. We concluded on it long time ago but it is gathering dust in the Senate. The Urban Areas and Cities Bill just came the other day and this honourable House will be concluding it, hopefully in the next one week and it will be ready. We are urging you, Hon. Speaker to sit with your colleague in Senate because our Bills are gathering dust in the Senate. They should reciprocate so that we can move as a country. For example, my Bill which, is in the Senate is supposed to show us the way forward in term of roads. Critically we have to divide the roads so that others will belong to the national Government and others to the county governments. Up to now we do not know what is going on. Secondly, we need to divide resources between national Government and counties. Up to now, I do not know what is happening. I want to take this opportunity as the Chair of this honourable Committee to urge them to reciprocate. Let us not have this sibling rivalry. We do not have higher, upper or small House. The people of Kenya will not eat that debate; they want the services to be delivered to them. I am therefore urging them to reciprocate. They should do what we are doing."
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