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    "content": "I think this House, or the county assemblies, also need to be encouraged to come up with punitive laws to ensure that you do not just walk around and throw garbage everywhere. I have seen it in Singapore. I stayed there for a couple of weeks; if you throw garbage all over you will be captured by cameras which are all over the place. You are monitored. You throw garbage and you are nabbed by the police and your details are taken. If you do that again you are actually taken to a doctor for examination to see whether you have a psychiatric problem or something like that. By the way, in the first instance you are fined US$500. The second time you are fined US$600, and the next time you have to go to serve in a community jail. So, it is a very serious thing. When you go to Singapore you will see that it is spotlessly clean. So, I think we need to do that. If we come up with this as a national policy, we will need to encourage our county assemblies to come up with laws to ensure that people do not litter our environment. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I think we need to look at it not just as a health and environmental issue but as an economic issue as well. No tourist will want to come to Nairobi, Mombasa or Malindi when they look at the internet and see a dirty town. They will as: Why should I take my family to a place which is dirty and risk contracting diseases when we are on a holiday? The more we litter our environment, the more we discourage tourists from coming to our country and the more we discourage mega tourism cash from being invested in the country; it will be taken to neighbouring countries which are very serious about their environment and tourism as a product. So, I think we need to look at that. It is about time we took a serious view of that because this is not just a health issue, but is also an economic issue. We have to be serious about garbage collection. We should do it for ourselves. Nobody wants to stay in a dirty place. When a goat, or a sheep, wants to sleep, it first cleans up the place and then it lies down. Why is it that as modern human beings, we allow ourselves to stay in dirty, unhealthy places? I support this Motion and urge this House to take it seriously, so that, hopefully, we can enact laws and encourage our counties to enact laws to ensure that we live in clean environments. This is a very personal issue to me because I want to encourage investors to come to my town. I do not want them to come over here and start holding their noses because everywhere in Malindi Town is dirty. I will never accept that. I thank the Mover of the Motion and I support it."
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