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    "id": 837640,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/837640/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui Rural, CCU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Mboni",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Mwalika Mboni",
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    "content": " Thank you very much Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this important Bill. I rise to support it because it clearly defines how urban centres, cities, municipalities and markets should be created. Using the proposed criterion, existing towns will be reclassified into municipalities and cities. The importance of urbanisation cannot be over-emphasised. Urbanisation makes provision of social services like hospitals, schools and water very easy because people are close together. The cost of providing those services is low. The proposed establishment of the National Urban Development Fund is a move in the right direction. Most of our cities and towns do not have sewerage systems, waste disposal systems and domestic water. The fund will cater for those systems so that people can get water, waste disposal systems and proper roads. In the management of cities, the Bill proposes committees to manage them. We need capacity building for those committees so that they can understand how a city needs to look like and how it should function. Otherwise, we will have cities that are not well managed. Proper planning of cities is very important. This Bill is important because the Lamu Port-South Sudan- Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor Programme proposes the establishment of a town within every 50 kilometres of the clusters. This Bill will help us to have proper cities. 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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