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    "id": 950037,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/950037/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 124,
        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
        "slug": "samson-ongeri"
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, that is why I keep on insisting that one of the things that must be done in any county, including Kisii County, we must learn to do geospatial planning for every town, headquarters of counties and urban centres. We must do spatial planning to cater for the zones of these informal trading centres. We need to protect them because they do not have enough resources to invest in heavy capital investment activities. We want them to survive on their little daily earnings because that is what they know best and provide comparable qualities. For this to be a meaningful venture, let us get them organized while the county and national governments are also getting organized. Let us organize them into viable organizations with the privileges and rights. They must fight for their rights and privileges where they feel that they are being cornered. To organize the county and national governments to make adequate provisions that are not limited to security, solid waste management, water, lighting and parking facilities, but other necessary facilities. These facilities are necessary for these units to be viable. Otherwise, if we do not do so, we risk turning our urban centres and peri-urban centres into huge slums. It will take us a lot of energy and resources to clean them up. If you ever went to Lagos, it takes you about half a day to drive from the centre of Lagos to the airport which is only about 10 or 11 kilometres because of many slums. They had to do re-planning. That is why they relocated a new centre to Abuja in order to accommodate the planning. The centre-piece on this Bill must be that, once county governments take it as their baby, they must do geospatial planning effectively so that they make provisions for goods and services and how they should be organised. They should also create certain zones for specific products. For instance, you can have a food market which has a completely different zone altogether. Next to it, you can have woodwork hardware and other things. Of course, the traditional ones we have where goats are sold---."
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