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"speaker_name": "Bishop Wanjiru",
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"content": "shades in such a place? That space is so big that we can build a modern 20-floors market or something awesome so that many people can sit there! But now, we are wasting the space with some little stalls that cannot even accommodate our people! We need to look at our society and modernise our markets. The old markets should be demolished! There are some markets that you cannot even touch a stone because the whole wall will crumble down and fall. They are so old and they have never been renovated! They just need to be crashed down and rebuilt. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the Presidential Speech, the President made it clear that markets will be given a priority. So, I ask, having known that the Central Business District (CBD) is within my constituency and it has many markets, that markets should be given a priority. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me move on to slum upgrading. I know that the President is the patron of the United Nations Habitat Upgrading Programme. He is the patron! But, March 13, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 163 I also have to mention that, whereas I find pictures of Mathare Slums probably hanging on the walls--- Recently, we sat in a forum and we were contributing about the slums. Somebody mentioned to me: \"You come from the nation that has got one of the largest slums\". Look at us, Kenyans! We take pride by taking tourists to Kibera to take photographs. Then, they go saying that we have the largest slums in the world. On top of that, we say: \"Oh! Soweto is larger than us!\" My friend, go visit Soweto. It is better than Umoja! So, when you talk about Soweto, it is not a slum at all! We, in this Tenth Parliament, must take a stand and make a decision that we are not going to take pride in slums any more! We are going to give our people better housing. That is needed urgently. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the President finished his Speech by saying that there will be rebuilding and building of a new Kenya. So, as we rebuild the areas that we can rebuild, let us go to other areas that we do not need to rebuild. We simply just need to start afresh and build a new Kenya. Let us not forget the slums! Finally, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to add on what the Minister has said about education. It was bothering me because some people were complaining that they cannot access free education. I think it is important - just a word of advice - to put some of these things out through the media in an official statement, so that the people can understand what they are getting through the free education. That way, we will not have all the confusion that is going on through the media day by day. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on wages, one of my colleagues commented--- I do not want to zero in there! But I want to say that civil servants are suffering. The police are suffering. The nurses and doctors are suffering! We talk about brain drain. All the best doctors prefer to go and work abroad! Even the other day, as we were in New York, if we needed a doctor, they could not attend to us immediately and yet, they are Kenyans! But they follow the law that is there. Let us pay our Kenyan workers wages that, at least, can make them be stable in life. Just like we, in Parliament, have a good pay that makes us to smile, let us also do the same to all the sectors in the country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with regard to the peace that we are preaching after the post election violence, I do request--- I have sat here for some time and I have heard statements- --"
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