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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I also rise to support this Motion and, indeed, to thank the honorable Senator for Kajiado for moving it. When we talk about waste in this country, many people will remind us that, one, it is a place where many also have informal jobs; two, it is a business that has very serious cartels that we also need to look at as we deal with the issue at hand. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I will start by giving an example of Nairobi County. That, indeed, we have had, for years, donors and even governments wanting to intervene and come up with a better way of managing our waste; ensuring that we have a better place to dump that waste and even recycle and use it so that it can also create employment for our young people. But what has happened is that even those who collect that waste belong to a cartel that you cannot just join and start the business; you will have to go through a process. Therefore, even if we would want to see the Dandora Dumpsite, for example, changed to become an institution that we can rely on and recycle our garbage or waste, you will find that you have to, first of all, look at what has been happening. Many are the times we have seen on our television people even killing each other. The other day, we had two gangs in Dandora who were fighting and all that brings up the issue of insecurity. If you go to Mombasa, it is also a very sad situation; being a town where if you remember the former Member of Parliament for Mvita, now the Cabinet Secretary for Mining, Najib Balala, had done his best to give it a different look, and people used to admire Mombasa at that time. But today when you enter Mombasa County, they have come up with a proposal where they have different dumping sites where garbage is dumped and then it is collected. But then it has become even worse when you use that process. Therefore, it means that even at the moment, the counties do not even have that capacity to start managing the waste. They found waste and now they are confronted with even more waste, and challenges of how to ensure that it is dumped in a proper manner that will ensure we bring back the different cities that we have. When you walk in Mombasa on your way to Nyali, using the road in Bombolulu, you will find that there is a nice board that is put up; but when you look inside the field, you will be very surprised to see how people are dumping waste there. This is land that belonged to the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC); and I wonder if it is still theirs, because with the dumping that has been done there, you cannot say it is your land any more. I even do not know how you can salvage it to now become property of the national Government for it to be used. But what we are saying as the Senate is that it is important now to look at solutions, and we need to blame ourselves in some of these things as a country, because when you look at our numbers and when you look at the numbers in China and Europe, and they are able to---"
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