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    "content": "However, in Nairobi, the poor of the poor who live in Kibera, Mukuru kwa Njenga and all the other places--- First of all, there is no meal to get an aroma from. Secondly, everybody is barricaded. In fact, when you want to rudely interrupt their meal, they will think you are a robber going to rob them. You may suffer severe consequences in such kind of behaviour. Why should we have Kibera, Mathare and Korogocho when there are families in this country that own land the size of a province; billionaires for doing nothing? These are the real issues that we need to address in this country. Paragraph (c) states that every Kenyan is entitled to be free from hunger and to have adequate food of acceptable quality. That means that the conduct alone of those children who hang around the Dandora dumpsite and scrounge through the stench to pick something to eat amounts to the Government abrogating the Constitution. The Government has a duty to make sure that we do not have the Dandora dumpsite the way it is. More importantly, it should make sure that those children that scavenge on the dumpsite are in school, have houses to live in, food to eat and water to drink and clean themselves, and with a dream to become somebody in future. The Government has a duty to do so. Article 43 of the Constitution also obligates the Government to ensure social security and education for everybody. You may recall that in the progressive Kibaki days, there was a plan to have universal health care. I salute my good sister, Sen. Mugo and Sen. (Prof.) Anyang'-Nyong'o – the drivers of universal health care – because they had very progressive ideas. They wanted to obligate, as the law requires, every employer to contribute to the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) and the Government to contribute to the NHIF on behalf of those who do not work, so that every hospital has a benefit and duty. Whether you are a villager in Nyeri and have never worked, you would have the NHIF card that helps you to go to a hospital and get treatment. That can be done. That obligation is under Article 43 of Constitution. If the current Parliament does not legislate to obligate these issues to be done, we shall carry the blame. In future, we will be asked what we did when we had the opportunity to legislate. Maybe we shall say that we were busy defending our turfs or insulting each other, but that is not what we were sent here to do. We were sent here to legislate, oversight and represent the people. I hope this Bill, once it is passed, will not go to the National Assembly and join the queue, like all our Bills are never dealt with while in that House. Madam Temporary Speaker, I encourage Members to see the contents of Clause 6 that obligates the national and county governments to formulate and implement policies, legislation and strategies that put in place mechanisms for the realisation of these economic and social rights. Sen. Hassan must also ensure the formulation and implementation of these policies, legislations and strategies---"
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