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    "id": 863503,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/863503/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Roysambu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Isaac Ndirangu",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2701,
        "legal_name": "Isaac Waihenya Ndirangu",
        "slug": "isaac-waihenya-ndirangu"
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    "content": "leadership in Nairobi and the county government… This appeal also goes to His Excellency the President who I know is committed to helping solve the problem of shortages of markets in Nairobi to come up with a quick solution so that we create employment for our people and we create market facilities for them. I have been in Jua Kali for a long time. I am a Jua Kali operator for so many years. I want to tell you that the people of Nairobi do not need to wait for the World Bank or the city government to build markets for them. What hawkers and operators of Nairobi need is just land. Give us land where we can build our stalls. Traders in Nairobi have capacity. Traders in Wakulima Market have capacity. Traders in Gikomba have sufficient resources to build for themselves a market. They need not wait for the Government. We only need the intervention of the Government in resolving the matter of the ownership of the land in Gikomba then the traders can invest their money in building modern kiosks and modern stalls to do business. This goes for all other markets, in Kiambu or Athi River. Create space for hawkers. Create space for small micro-enterprises. Give us land and we shall do the rest. We will put in infrastructure. We will build. We do not need to wait for donors. We do not need to wait for the Ministry. We have resources; we have money. Just point to us the land. Resolve the issues of land in Gikomba and Muthurwa then give us part of all that land you want to develop for multiple storey buildings like in Pumwani so that we create markets. We have capacity in the Jua Kali sector. I wish to support this Bill and plead with the Governor of Nairobi, whom we respect and we support a lot, to hasten the appointment of a deputy governor. Thank you."
}