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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is a shame that so many Kenyans were allowed to migrate to Nairobi and other urban areas. I am hoping that with the introduction of counties, the reverse should happen. I do not know whether it is going to happen in the next five years, where people must now be contained in their small cities and county governments. If you look at where the people are coming from, you come from a very clean environment in the rural area, and then you come and stay in Kibera, for example, and yet you expect to survive. But because of a lot of this rubbish that has been deposited, it becomes very difficult indeed to move and to work. Nakuru is one such area; there is one very glaring dumping site in Nakuru Town. You just see it at a place called ‘London’ when you are going towards Kabarak. It is a shame that we can actually deposit such kinds of harmful materials right on the highway where every eye sees it. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is a high time that we put in place very firm policies that need to be followed. You will remember that four years or so ago, the late Minister, hon. Michuki, faced this problem head-on in the Nairobi River by leading a team of officers from the Ministry of Environment to clean the river. It is a pity that what they were removing from the river was actually as a result of this solid waste material that they were unable to remove. It is only last week when I tabled here a report on some of the scientific innovations and technologies that have been invented by Kenyans in our universities here; who have come up with noble ways of how to eliminate these solid waste materials. This can only be highlighted by the national Government and then the county governments are told to link up with those innovators to see how they can employ some of those techniques which they have come up with to remove this waste. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when you remember what happens in the west, some of us who have visited there know that solid waste material is collected and it is ground on the spot by the truck that is carrying it. This means that there is technology now in the whole world where machines are available that can separate plastic waste from the solid waste, making it very easy to grind them and turn it to something else. A lot of this solid waste that comes from our homes can easily be separated if we tell the producers of this waste to separate plastic, glass and any other solid on one side, and anything else that can be biodegradable to be put on the side. I am saying this because I know that in the rural areas, we need a lot of fertilizer, and some of the counties that have huge cities, like Nairobi County, can actually produce their own organic fertilizer by coming up with a factory or a machine that is dedicated to grinding this solid waste that is biodegradable. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is the duty of all of us and particularly the Senate to point out the direction that the nation requires to move given that for the days we are in Senate, all of us stay in Nairobi. Since we are in Nairobi, it is proper that we deal with this problem because the areas where we are staying in the city are affected by this waste management. If we do this, we would save a lot of money that we are using in treating our people in the hospitals. We are going to save a lot of money because this will make our people healthy and strong and capable to work. The people that have come up with innovations and have any idea that can be useful to the national Government should go to the relevant Ministry and also to the county governments with these ideas. I know Kenyans are very brilliant and they have discovered some of these technologies and we must utilize them in order to remove all these tonnage of solid waste that is giving us problems. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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