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    "id": 1278121,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kirinyaga Central, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Gitari",
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    "content": "Before I joined politics in 2008, I remember there was a case that a former Permanent Secretary by the name Sam Kirui and others like John Gakuo were jailed for three years over misappropriation of Ksh283 million or something like that for a cemetery. I think it is the duty of this House to make a follow-up because they were jailed for three years, and I remember John Gakuo, the then Nairobi Town Clerk who had planted many trees around Nairobi, died in prison. What happened to the money and that piece of land? I would like to fault the Urban Planning Department at the Nairobi City County. If we are only approving housing and extending our roads, it means our population is growing. My question is: Why are we not planning for the dead because we need to give them dignity? I was a victim. We were laying somebody very close to me to rest in Langata Cemetery and it is a bit worrying when you go there because you are asked what kind of grave you want — whether a temporary or a permanent one. The temporary one is where they can bury today, and you do not have any control. Because of what my brother Hon. Jalang’o has talked about, like double allocation of graveyards, if you take a dead person to Langata and you bury him or her with a good coffin, it is normally stolen before the close of the day. This is something that we need to follow up because Nairobi belongs to all of us even if we come from rural constituencies because we do not plan when we will die and anything can happen and we land in the same Langata. I also want to echo the sentiments of our colleagues who have indicated that every constituency should, at least, have a cemetery where they can bury the dead. Where I come from, we have about 25 colonial villages. All these colonial villages do not have any cemetery and so if we were to segment per constituency for each to have a common cemetery, I think we will be sorting out this problem. I urge my brother, Hon. Jalang’o, to sit with the Governor of Nairobi, have a chat and talk about it. By bringing this Motion, Hon. Jalang’o, as much as I am not the appointing authority, I would say that your sins have been forgiven and you will not be called for those things in the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM). I support."
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