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    "id": 1074730,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I take notice of the fact that the management of the Municipality has followed the critical path in seeking to be conferred city status. However, to be very honest, the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare returned a verdict through a Report that was adopted by this House on the mistreatment of street children by the ccounty government of Nakuru. What is disturbing about the said Report is that, the street children were collected and dumped in a forest to be eaten by hyenas and other wild animals. The action was taken with the express intention of the county government of Nakuru applying for city status. The action was inhuman and despicable that a county government would think of treating its own street children in such a manner so as to advance their status. It is true that municipalities that do well in terms of infrastructure development, improvement in security, health care, solid waste management, governance and supply of other basic amenities should be rewarded with elevation to city status. Mr. Speaker, Sir, there are issues that have been raised by the Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations and the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare, when it sat in Nakuru. I was just having a conversation with my leader here, the Senator for Bungoma, over allegations of county government of Nakuru releasing raw effluent into Lake Nakuru. This activity is killing the lake and its ecosystem. Whether this Senate today decides to elevate Nakuru Municipality to city status or not, that is a matter that needs to be addressed. I see as if Sen. Murkomen it trying to derail me. I am talking about Lake Nakuru in Nakuru. I am saying that the release of raw effluence into that lake from industrial activities in Nakuru Town is a matter that - whatever decision this Senate makes on this application - the governance of Nakuru County must look into with a view to fixing it."
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