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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "should send more money to our counties. We should fight for more money to go to our counties so that we stop this rural-urban migration. I have been to many parts of the industrial area in Nairobi. You will find that places where there were no dumpsites are now dumpsites. When people are moved from the river banks or the land adjacent to the rivers, it cleans up the environment. I think we need to be serious and become future-centric in terms of our planning and thinking because my sister has raised serious concerns here. In her first Statement, she wants the procedure and framework under which the Government conducted evictions and demolition in Mathare and Mukuru Kwa Reuben areas clarified. We know the Government was reacting and trying to save people. I think it is about time that we all fight for more money to go to our counties to create more jobs so that we limit the number of people who have to come in and live as second-class citizens or as puppets in our urban areas. Everybody here in this House today lives like a king or queen. They have beautiful apartments and houses which are not affected by the floods. However, the people we represent here are languishing in poverty. In this Statement, I would like the Committee to go further and try to see what we need to do as a House, so that we can become proactive and take responsibility for our actions. If you ask the Governor of Nairobi why he had to remove people from the river bank, he would say it is because he wants to save them from being washed away. To be honest with you, when you look at Nairobi the way it is, when the colonial masters designed it to be a Capital City, they did not think that the population would grow this much. They thought that probably there would be a few people living in Nairobi. The truth of the matter is that as we think clearly about the solutions, we need not think about two years in advance but 10 years in advance. We should create more cities. Mr. Speaker, Sir, at first, I made completely unorthodox suggestions that we should move the seat of Government from Nairobi to some rural area so that we could create room. It is about time we did this. Let us go to Taita Taveta or Narok County - sorry, not Narok County; we do not have land there. Let us proceed to the rural areas where we can put the seat of the Government. When you put the Government seat there, you will attract more people and decongest the city. This Statement is important, and I thank Sen. Kibwana. I hope the Committee will take serious proactive measures to ensure that they extend not only in Nairobi but in all urban areas, which everybody is rushing to. We are neglecting our rural areas. There are pieces of legislation being introduced now, some of which we do not read but are passed. We will continue disadvantaging the poor people. I thank Sen. Kibwana for her Statement and hope that we can become proactive in our decision-making. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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