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    "id": 837615,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwea, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Josphat Kabinga",
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        "legal_name": "Josphat Kabinga Wachira",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I stand to support this Bill. By passing this Bill, we will be spurring development in all the areas in our country and not just the cities that we have. Currently, the policies that are in place put a lot of focus on the existing cities. We know that we have the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which carries out development in various urban areas, but with a lot of concentration on the existing cities. By passing this Bill, we will see a number of other areas developing in terms of municipalities and cities. Overall, we will record greater development in our country. I am particularly happy with the proposal by the Committee to form the urban areas fund. If this fund will be utilised well, then it will ensure that resources are available in some of the areas that are currently underserved. I have in mind my town that may qualify to be a municipality, that is, Ngurubani Town. It hosts an economy which is over Kshs7 billion. That amount of money is earmarked to rise to about Kshs15 billion or Kshs20 billion in the next three years. If you go to Ngurubani, you will realise that despite the large population of people, there is no single tarmac road going through the town. We do not have a sewerage system. Not even a library! I support this Bill with the hope that when this fund is finally put in place, there will be fair distribution of resources so that some of those hitherto neglected towns also benefit. I say so because I have not been happy with the way resources are distributed in this country. I have said it before and I will say it again. When I see myself going home with a NG-CDF kitty equal to that of constituencies that have three wards only and yet mine has eight wards; or constituencies The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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