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    "id": 1196968,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13217,
        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is nowhere in the Standing Orders where it is stated that I must sing and that there should be a soundtrack. I was just using an example of a lingual that most young people in our cities understand. There is a singer called “Mejja” who sings Gengetone. In one of his songs, he says ni ku-bad . He goes on to say; kama ni lazima ulipe parking kwa hospitali, then society imeoza. It is a lingual that I am trying to put into context. I will invite Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale also known as the “Bullfighter”, who is the Senate Majority Whip, to include a soundtrack during the Senate Business Committee (SBC) meeting. I will happily sing the lyrics on the Floor of the House. That is how rotten the society is. Why would you ask people to pay for parking in a hospital? You can imagine carrying a sick person or somebody with an emergency case, yet you are asked to pay for parking in this city. I do not want to mention names, but we have one of the hospitals where we are covered under our insurance service provider, which charge exorbitant parking fee. In fact, their parking fee is more expensive than what we pay in malls and at the airports or even the normal parking fees that we pay in town. That is inhumane. I support Sen. Sifuna on this, but with a lot of concern. Article 209 of the Constitution and the Fourth Schedule talk about imposition of tax. One of the roles of county governments is management of parking spaces in our counties. The Urban Areas and Cities Act also provides for the same. Picking, dropping and parking areas are designated, but most of the hospitals are privately owned. I do not think public hospitals charge parking fees. Parking fees are charged mostly by private hospitals, educational institutions, airports and shopping malls. Some people impose parking fees because they want to deter people from using their spaces. Why would you charge somebody with a sick person? When you to the Nairobi Hospital, you must pay for parking, yet you could be a patient seeking treatment, or you have a sick person, but they charge you exorbitantly. The question is, who regulates that? Even if they charge Kshs500 per hour, I doubt if the Nairobi City County Government even gets Kshs50. In as much as Article 209 provides for own source revenue--- I heard Sen. Oketch Gicheru who is learning ropes very fast saying that county governments have been given power to tax. That is provided in the law because we have devolved functions. However, our resolutions are not implemented because we do not have a committee on implementation. Sen. Sifuna is a Member of the Committee on Roads, Transportation and Housing. They should implement the resolution of this House, for example, after we resolve that the Governor of Nairobi City County should issue a restraining order against private hospitals from charging parking fees. How do you charge parking fees to a sick person? Who will pay if they die? Those are some of the questions that Kenyans ask themselves. That is unfortunate. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we also have shopping malls. Those can be exempted because they are commercial enterprises."
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