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    "id": 1300335,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Nyamu",
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    "content": "I was privileged to serve on the board of the Nairobi Water and Sewerage Company for three years before I became a Senator. We had marked Nairobi County into seven regions. We have the central region which includes the Central Business District and its environs and the southern region. We saw it wise and necessary to have a separate region that included all the slums. I forget the name, but the slums were under one region, regardless of the location and the geographical area. How we dealt with the slums was not the same way we dealt with other regions. In terms of billing and water supply, they are more populated and less privileged. I would like the policymakers and the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) to recognize these regions as marginalized. Korogocho, Soweto, Viwandani, and Riruta areas have been ignored because of the neighbouring Karen, Muthaiga, and other rich estates. They are not children of a lesser god. We have been crying for the slum dwellers, but they have been ignored over the years. We are going to resort to unorthodox means. As women of Nairobi City County’s Laini Saba, Kiboro, and Mji wa Huruma we are going to undress so that we can get the attention of the policymakers and the legislators. Nairobi City is not a rich county. Just because we are the seat of Government and we happen to have rich estates does not mean that we are rich. Enough of these talks, we are going to find solutions for ourselves. Governor Wavinya Ndeti said Kambas have their ways of solving things, in Nairobi, we will find a way of having our slum dwellers recognized by the highest office in this House. Thank you."
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