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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "responded. We need those answers because the fires have been there incessantly for many years. Yesterday, I alluded to the fact that the National Land Commission (NLC) should be involved. In fact, probably you should direct that this be done concurrently with the Committee on Land, Environment and Natural Resources and not just the Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations. I am saying this because this matter is about the title deed of Gikomba Market. There are businessmen who purport to hold titles to Gikomba Market, which is around 12 acres. The strategy has been to burn a section and move traders and keep doing so. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we need a clear pronouncement by the Ministry, which is the custodian of titles, on the entire acreage under which Gikomba Market which is the biggest in East and Central Africa is. We need to know whether that is public land. That is the first pronouncement we need. Secondly, this matter also touches on security and that is why we came together with Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. The National Disaster Management Authority Bill has gone to the National Assembly. Some of those fires can be prevented by proper disaster management planning. We must have one fire station there. We saw the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) Director, Maj. Gen. Badi, together with the Member of Parliament (MP) for Westlands, going to sanitise corruption in Westlands. They received a donation of land for a fire station from someone who has grabbed the same land from Nairobi City County."
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