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    "id": 1126404,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Senator for Elgeyo-Marakwet is acting as the Speaker from his chair. That is fine. Maybe I need only three minutes. First of all, I thank Sen. Ngugi for coming up with this Statement. From the outset, I would like to state that Gikomba Market could be located in Nairobi but the composition of that market is the face of Kenya because traders in that market are drawn from every corner of this country. When fires break out in Gikomba Market and consume property and destroy businesses, it is not enough to say that those businesses and property belong to the people of Nairobi. That is a devastating thing that has happened to Kenyans from every corner of this country who trade in Gikomba. I know there is a huge population of the Kamba Community that trade in Gikomba. Every time we have fire outbreaks, they lose businesses and their property is destroyed to the tune of hundreds of millions of shillings. I have listened to the Senator for Nairobi City County talking about what could be behind those fires. I hope that the committee will get to the bottom of this issue. If it is illegal power connections, illegal power connections are found in almost every slum area in this country but we do not have frequent fires in all those areas. If it is the issue of expiry of insurance covers, that happens in every trading town and centre in this country but we do not experience such frequency of fires in those areas. There must be something about who owns the piece of land on which Gikomba Market is located. I hope that the Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations and the Committee on Land, Environment and Natural Resources will get to the bottom of this matter. As Sen. Sakaja has said, by the time we get back from our recess, I hope we will not have had two more fires in Gikomba before the committees sit."
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