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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kajwang",
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        "legal_name": "Gerald Otieno Kajwang",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. This includes proper use of zebra crossings and road signage, pedestrian ways and pavements to be properly designated and provided and the same can be enforced through county legislation. We also observed that there is lack of critical facilities. For example, the cemetery, disaster preparedness, county-owned public theatre, inadequate sanitation and strong water drainage which needs urgent and immediate action if the conferment into city status is to have valuable or meaningful effect. Mr. Speaker, Sir, on that we also observed that the cities that are already established, are also suffering from similar deficiencies that while Nairobi has a cemetery, perhaps it is not sufficient for the population. While Nairobi has got sanitation and strong water drainage, it is not sufficient and does not serve all citizens. We also observed that there is need to build institutional, competent human resource infrastructure and financial capacity in all departments to adequately deliver services. Mr. Speaker, Sir, one of the reasons why this Report came late to the House, is that when we were ready to table it, the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare was seized of a Petition that was brought to this House. That Petition regarding street children was brought to the House on 27th February, 2019. The petitioners averred that 41 children had been rounded up in Nakuru, detained and dropped in the Chemasusu Forest and dispersed one kilometre apart. It was reported that 36 children were recovered while five remained unaccounted for. When the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare went to consider the Petition, they replied to the petitioners and confirmed that, indeed, it would appear that the allegations raised by the petitioners were verifiable. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare in its recommendations observed that the process of conferment of city status should be put on hold until the matter of these street children was resolved. We wrote to Nakuru county government and provided them with a copy of the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare’s Report on the Petition. We framed specific questions that we needed them to address to assure the Senate that they are taking pro- active measures to ensure that the rights of the street children are respected."
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