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    "id": 1278081,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1278081/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kangundo, GDDP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Fabian Muli",
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    "content": " Thank you very much for allowing my voice to be heard on this Motion brought by our colleague, Hon. Phelix Odiwour, aka Jalang’o. I support the Motion. Greek philosophers note that the living must take care of the dead. If we are living today and cannot care for our dead brothers and sisters, whom are we living for? What are we living for? Before I continue, I would like to send my condolences to the brothers and sisters whose parents and other family members are lying at Langata Cemetery. May their souls rest in peace. If you see the happenings within Langata Cemetery today, you cannot believe the space there. When you go there for burial, you cannot even believe there is space because other bodies are there. Immediately after you finish burying your loved one, they remove the body to create room for another burial to take place. That is only caused by poor planning. The Nairobi City County has not failed only through Langata Cemetery. We have seen many happenings within this city where there is a total failure in planning. People are given the right to build buildings on riverbeds. After they finish constructing, the buildings are demolished. Sometimes you see people’s buildings being demolished on the claim that they are on road reserves. It is the same as what is happening in Langata. Not only are we saying we move to the Ministry of Health, but is also high time we placed matters of land at the national Government level rather than at the Nairobi City County. As we speak, we have a huge disaster coming to Karen. Parliament purports to be building a 32-floor house in Karen. The Nairobi City County has already approved it. You ask them what brain they use when approving some things. Karen is an aviation area. That is why we do not have high-rise buildings there. Langata Cemetery was gazetted a disaster a long time ago. As we pass nearby, we see crazy things. You see bodies of human beings, and not cows’ or dogs’ carcasses, strewn all over the place. You will see a body lying in the open in broad daylight in the Capital City of Kenya. You also see other people pushing their bodies for burial there. Then the Nairobi County Government continues to say they have a physical planning department. I join my colleagues by saying that Langata Cemetery should go to the national Government. It is high time that this House put funds aside to cater for the respect of the dead. We should set funds aside for the purchase of land. It should not be in one place only. We should tackle the many corners of Nairobi. Death is within us. We are walking with it. We cannot stay and say that our only option is Langata Cemetery. Physical planners at the Nairobi County Government should be in jail for what they are doing to this city. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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