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    "content": "and G but I do not care about a prisoner. If he has committed a crime, he should actually be hanged but because we are a civilized society, we want to abolish - I agree with the Committee – the death penalty. We need to look at the best way of correcting our citizens. So, with regards to the recommendations for the prisons, the Committee needed to go down and do a thorough job. But under the circumstances, I have no problem. This the beginning point and I think there is room for improvement. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with regard to Nairobi City Council (NCC), the most shameful thing about the recommendation or observation of the Committee is that the Government owes the NCC Kshs6.4 billion. How do you expect the NCC to render services to citizens, collect garbage, clean Nairobi River, provide some services in the medical sector, help primary schools, poor children and poor families when the Government owes the NCC a whooping Kshs6.4 billion? This cannot be accepted! It is unacceptable and when this Report is adopted, the Ministries concerned must pay the City Council its dues. We have a State corporation called Telkom which owes the NCC over Kshs200 million. I think the Minister who is in charge of the City is, in fact, trying to blow himself by saying “Nairobi metropolis”. We want the NCC, as small as it, to be paid its own dues so that we can talk about the bigger metropolis. So, I would recommend and my colleague is here and that is why I wanted to talk so that I can tell him, he should push for this money to be paid to the NCC and we will demand services. You cannot expect NCC to provide services if it is not paid her dues. On the issue of plots, not only in the Nairobi City Council--- and that is why I think the Chairman and the Committee should not dwell on NCC but on all local authorities. When councilors are elected, it is like they are given a blank cheque for them to write for themselves plots. They must “eat” plots. They must allocate themselves plots all over. This has to stop! A policy must be produced by this House or a law should be made by this House that no council land--- Council land is under trust. It is entrusted to the council to take care of it on behalf of citizens. But when councilors come in, they start allocating themselves plots for sale. This is part of corruption! Do you know why? Because our councilors are underpaid and we need to change Cap.265 so that we can request the Government to pay councilors better money so that they do not just grab the plots. It is unfortunate that they allocate the plots to themselves. It is like their own property. The councilors sit for a general meeting and allocate themselves plots; the land entrusted to them by the public. That recommendation should have been very firm!"
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