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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Caleb Mule (",
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    "content": "Machakos Town, MCCP): Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support the Motion on Consideration of the National Sanitation Management Policy. I join my colleagues in saying that the policy should have gone further to take care of the sewer part. Most of the time, we deal with water and concentrate our efforts in that area. However, we often forget that the water we use eventually ends up in the sewer, and wherever it goes, it must be managed. When we have a clean environment, we have a healthy nation and when we have a healthy nation, even the life expectancy is high. Therefore, I rise to support the Report, but I ask the Committee and Hon. Chairman to go deeper and deal with the issue of the sewer system. In my area, we have a river called Athi, which is now purely sewer. All the houses and dwellings around it discharge raw sewage into the river, which then flows into the big dam that we are building in Thwake. If we do not take care of and have good policies to take care of the sewer, we will have a big sewer in the name of a dam called Thwake, which is costing the Government a lot of money. Hon. Michuki tried to clean the river, which is a possible thing to do. It is very possible for us to clean the Nairobi River and the rivers that surround the city so that we can have clean rivers. We also experience some negative effects from having these sewers in our lower area. If you go down to Machakos, the Athi River flows from Machakos, then continues to Mwala and eventually reaches Thwake. We have funny diseases like cancer that are being caused by unkept or improperly managed sewers and rivers. As I mentioned, the industries surrounding Athi River discharge all their carcinogenic waste into the river, which then flows downstream. That water is used by people in Mwala in Machakos. It is dangerous because it has cancer- causing carcinogenic chemicals."
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