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    "id": 374988,
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kazungu Muzee",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker for this opportunity. I rise to support this Motion. It is timely because over the past few weeks, or months, we have been seeing people organising garbage collection exercises but I think the more you look at them the more you realise that they are engaged in mere public relations exercises, because really taking a deeper look at the situation you will see how bad the situation is in our major towns. I want to state here that this is not a Nairobi affair. Garbage collection is essentially a national shame, if you ask me. I come from a tourist city of Malindi and we have that problem too; my honourable colleague has just told us about the example of Mombasa, where you are welcomed by a foul smell as you get out of the airport. I think in my view, first of all we need a proper sensitisation programme for our people in urban centres. It is a shame that you just walk into the streets and carelessly throw garbage all over when you know that there is a place that has been designated for you to drop your garbage; people have developed this habit of not caring for the environment and throwing garbage where they want. I think that has to stop and we need to sensitise our people on this. Hon. Deputy Speaker, a lot has been said about the privatisation of garbage collection. I think it is the way to go, because however much we organise clean-ups in our towns it is a fact that we cannot sustain this. So, we need to have private entities coming in and to help us in garbage collection. However, I have an issue with that also; sometimes you hear foreign firms getting involved in some basic activities like collecting our garbage, which, I think, our people can ably do. I think it is better to involve foreign investors to come in and set up recycling plants and all; but it is important that garbage collection is done by our own people. I know we have the capacity to do that and foreigners can only come in to set up recycling plants and create jobs. They can come with new products as stated by our colleague here."
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