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    "content": "for example, the City of Nairobi that we are in, you will agree with me that it is a great problem. Waste management is a big problem to urban areas, particularly due to the increasing population which has been shifting from the rural areas to the urban areas. As a result, quite a number of services have been overstretched. We have also been lacking the enforcement of sanitation regulations. If you look at the waste disposals sites that we have in Nairobi, you will be shocked to know that, for example, the Dandora dumpsite was just identified simply because it was a quarry site which had been left open. It was not even designed that, that was the area where dumping will be done. You will find that there are quite a number of people living near the dumpsite. The situation even in other parts of the country is the same, including my county where the dumpsites are located in quarry sites. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you look at the way the waste is collected and transported to the dumpsites, there is really need to come up with good regulations to manage this. This is an issue which is really not taken professionally. You will find that the vehicles which are collecting the waste are just open. Whenever waste is being transported in these vehicles, some of it is blown onto the road by the wind. This leads to a lot of waste being dumped along the way from the collection point to the dumpsite. This has a lot of effects on the environment and health of human beings. You will also find that the people who handle that process are unskilled and may not really be aware of what they are supposed to do. There is also a shortage of staff to handle this waste, maybe due to lack of resources. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in some areas which are unplanned, like the slum areas, you will find even the so-called flying toilets, since there are no facilities like proper toilets which are supposed to be used by those people. Even in cases where there are some toilets, the residents cannot afford the cost of using those facilities. They will prefer to buy foodstuff and use the polythene papers as toilets and throw them into the trenches which carry rain water. Sometimes those polythene bags are thrown onto play fields and the children end up playing with them. Due to that, many lives have been lost. The very vulnerable are children and women. As we all know, unless we have proper disposal facilities, children will always be affected in one way or the other. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in almost every centre or urban area, you will find ditches which are meant just to be storm water drains. You will find people selling goods and throwing all the waste into those ditches. As a result, when it rains, all the drains get blocked. I, therefore, call upon the national Government to come up with proper policies which will assist in regulating waste management. Mr. Speaker, Sir, from the engineering point of view, if waste is very well---"
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