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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the Motion moved by Sen. Sifuna. I also congratulate him because it is an important Motion for the people and his team living in Nairobi. The issue of parking charges in places where essential services are offered is a serious one. I am sure Sen. Sifuna will support me on this. Places that offer essential services charge the most as my sister, Sen. Beth Syengo, has said. This happened to me. If one visits a hospital like Aga Khan Hospital with an emergency, which they were not ready for, they can be kept there for eight or 10 hours and they will have to pay dearly for those hours. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this leaves one wondering considering that they have already paid the hospital a lot of money just to be levied a high parking fee for the time they have spent seeking for the services of the same hospital. This is very timely even though we appreciate that it has become a business in Nairobi. These parking levies have made life in Nairobi very expensive. On a bad day or a good day when you have errands to run in Nairobi and have to visit several places, you will find that you have paid so much money on parking by the end of the day. You then ask yourself how much money is collected in a month if Kenyans pay that kind of money in a month. Mr. Temporary Speaker, we can come up with legislation where these parking charges are levied depending on where people are going and the hours that the cars are parked. Nowadays, most parking areas do not have the first free 15 minutes. They charge people a minimum Kshs50 as long as one has entered a parking lot and the charges start going up after one hour. This is a point which should be looked at very carefully, especially on the essential services area as well as the airports. When you enter Wilson Airport to drop somebody, you have to pay Kshs200."
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