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    "id": 977885,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mavoko, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Patrick Makau",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Makau King'ola",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Listening to the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Lands, I am now convinced that he is the right person to be there. Physical planning is the future and heart of any nation that cares about the physical, social and economic welfare of a place and its dwellers. I have a lot of passion for physical planning. From Clause 286 of the Physical Planning Act provisions, when I look around, we have not been embracing the Act. If we embrace the Physical Planning Act and the provisions in it… I will not be ashamed to say that, now that Nairobi is under the national Government, we can now have the physical planning of those towns. When I look at the country holistically, unless we embrace physical planning, in 20 to 30 years’ time, this country will not be able to feed itself. When you look at all the agricultural lands in this country, they have been subdivided for building houses and we have left this country without arable lands that we can use to produce food that can sustain this nation. When you look at the Big Four Agenda of the President, there is no way we can achieve them unless we are food self-sufficient. With the Principal Secretary for the State Department for Physical Planning being a person with a background and profession in this field, I am now convinced that this country might get fixed. This is the time that the Executive should implement the Physical Planning Act to its end. I was once a mayor and I can tell you that only 10 years have elapsed, but when you look at our towns, they are in a pathetic state in terms of planning. There is no zoning. You will find industrial and residential areas mixed up. We now lose the meaning of physical planning because 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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