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    "content": "come up with an appropriate formula. We do not expect that we will have hawkers on Mama Ngina Street, Harambee Avenue or State House Road. I believe hawkers are also reasonable enough to be able to sit down with a legitimate authority to agree on specific areas where they can ply their trade. They can agree on specific days when they should come to the city and ways of ensuring that they have got licenses that are inviolable because we have seen many counties issue licenses and then withdraw them, saying that some were stolen from their premises thereby affecting all the hawkers. Someone spends Kshs1,000 to get a license. When it is withdrawn, they have to look for another Kshs1,000 to get another one. We must treat our hawkers and small-scale traders like other Kenyans. Since Independence, there have only been 3,000 people who have borne the title of an honourable MP, but there are tens of millions who have plied the streets who sell fish and wares at the bus stages and matatu termini. Those are the true owners of this nation. It is not the 3,000 hon. Members. It is that Wanjiru, Otieno and Wafula who sell cakes, marbles and Chinese goods out on the streets. I also hope that we will not continue to see people of foreign extraction, especially from China, also competing with our locals out there on the streets in the informal sector. In some backstreets in Nairobi, we have already seen plastic shoes being sold by the Chinese. They bring the items and sell them themselves. We must also ring- fence this informal sector because it is becoming attractive to other forces outside this nation. I support."
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