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    "id": 1100533,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "could do,’ but nobody did it because everybody thought somebody would do it. At the end of the day, nobody ended up doing it and we lost lives. A total of 49 children died because of lack of such an entity. That is why you need early warning signals. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is not lost upon us--- Where you come from, around the lake, flooding happens every year. There is Budalang’i or when River Nyando bursts its banks, if I am not wrong. There must be something that we must do. I said earlier that insanity is doing the same thing every day repeatedly and expecting different results. We need those early warnings and signals, and for us also to understand where these hotspots are. I can give you an example in Nairobi. Apart from the markets of Gikomba and some of the trade areas, one constituency that always has fire is Mathare Constituency. We know it. I remember going to the Kenya Power Company, as the Senator, and telling the management, “please, come with us. Let us make sure there are safe connections because it is power connections.” Madam Temporary Speaker, if you are charging people so much, they will take power for themselves. That vehicle will not enter Mathare, unless it is accompanied by leaders. You remember Hon. Ndolo of the famous quote of “ ukiona wao.” He said “ weka tyre, ” but he meant that if you see them and they have a puncture, help them by putting a tyre. Of course, we know that, that is not what he meant. That is what is happening in my county. It is because of the high costs of living. I have just explained today from Korogocho, where I have come and walked through Kariobangi. They are just saying ‘ mafuta.’ Fuel prices are too high. Because of that, people then get illegal connections and tap electricity. It is very dangerous, but because of the load of that electricity - sometimes they even go into Three Phase to go into the"
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