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    "id": 530739,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/530739/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Ombaka",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1007,
        "legal_name": "Christine Oduor Ombaka",
        "slug": "christine-oduor-ombaka"
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    "content": "Thank you for this opportunity. I am happy to contribute to this Motion. When we talk about disposal and recycling of alcoholic containers, we are talking about waste management. We suffer a lot from lack of understanding of the importance of keeping our city clean. We tend to see in our cities and urban centers, heaps of garbage with bottles of beer, plastic containers, tetra packs and tins that are containers of alcohol. They are just thrown around in a casual manner, and nobody takes seriously the manner in which they are thrown away. Waste management is a problem . In Kisumu, just next to a shopping mall, there is a huge heap of garbage that is rotting and has bottles of beer, tetra packs and tins. It is huge and is an eyesore. Children play there and some of them even take the contents that are left in those containers. It is extremely dangerous. They also get cuts from the tins and broken bottles that are disposed of carelessly on top of that heap. They run around it, they play and fall on it and get cut and it is extremely dangerous to their health. Secondly, some of those tins have water in them. Some have alcohol and sometimes during the rainy season, mosquitoes breed inside. Malaria is spread like that. We do not clear garbage that is heaped next to where we reside. In very many estates you find that there is huge waste thrown around and nobody bothers to collect it. The question is: What are the counties doing? Waste management is a key component of environmental cleanliness but nobody does this. Long time when I was growing up in this city, I used to see a lorry picking garbage from door to door. The city was kept clean. However, today we do not see them. What has happened? We have lost the sense of environmental cleanliness, which should be part and parcel of what we teach our children in school, or even at home. This is no longer taken seriously and the fear is that we are going to have more diseases, especially malaria and tetanus because children who play on garbage get cuts and tetanus. That is a problem. It is a health hazard; the health of our children is in danger."
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