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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this Motion should be taken seriously and from here, we need to find out whether Sen. G. G. Kariuki and the Mover will meet the NEMA officials and come up with what can be seen to be serious. We need not always to be making noise and lamenting. We have been to places and the other day we were in Kigali; a country which has come from nowhere, because it had so many problems. Now that is where we are going to compare notes. How do we compare notes with a country, which is even salvaging itself from war? But if you go there, you will be shocked. The genocide problems are there, but the towns and even the villages are clean. Why can we not enact a law to be implemented through the chiefs or assistant chiefs, where every person or village should come up with a well done latrine or waste disposal system? If that happens, we will not see waste dumpsites like the one that we see in Dandora. We should come up with a well done plan that is going to be anchored in the mother Ministry, so that we do not go on lamenting about garbage collection. That can be done without any problem. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, efforts have been made in Nairobi to collect refuse. During the “dark” days when Nairobi was dirty, you could not even go to Eastleigh or River Road. Those areas were completely sealed off because of dirt and filth. If we could continue with the same spirit, I am sure that we will have a clean city. Let us not rest there, but include all other cities and towns. This is because we see quite a lot of waste dumped in towns. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this is, therefore, an appeal to the Ministry of Environment, Water and Natural Resources and other Ministries which are concerned in various Motions that when we pass this Motion here, it should be implemented. Also, let there be a policy in the whole country that every town, village and home must be cleaned by its inhabitants. If we do not do that, we will complain of diseases like Cholera, Typhoid, Bilharzia and other waterborne diseases which will be rampant. That is the reason why this Motion is coming at this time, but this is not the end. I hope that the Mover and other interested Senators, like Sen. G.G. Kariuki, will move to the relevant Ministry for further implementation. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to support."
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