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    "content": "was a time when Thames River was so dirty that they had to form a Commission to clean it. The River is now one of the most celebrated rivers in London. It has clean water because people cared about the environment. You should see how dirty Nairobi River is. We are dealing with diseases that we should not be dealing with. If you follow this river to Machakos County, you will see that people are growing vegetables on its banks. When eating sukuma wiki, you hope that it has come from Eldoret, Elgeyo Marakwet County or Nyandarua, somewhere in the forest. This is because you can easily eat all kinds of waste because of what is planted along Nairobi River or at the lower part of this river. It is terrible. I wish we could form a commission in this Republic that includes membership of the National Government, Nairobi County, Machakos County and all the other counties where the river passes. We should just focus on cleaning Nairobi River. The late Minister, John Michuki, did a fantastic job in a very short time. There are a lot of trees along the banks of Nairobi River. I think Madam Temporary Speaker also had a hand in the matters of environment at some point, for that is what you are more conversant with. We have to do something about cleaning the environment in this country. It was good that we banned polythene papers and nowadays, they are very few around here. One of my family friends is a veterinary doctor and she was once interviewed about slaughtering animals at the Dagoretti Slaughter House at that time. She said that they would find so many polythene papers inside the stomachs of the animals that were slaughtered there. The things we eat in this country are not good; it is only God who has kept us alive thus far. As a country, we must find a way of focusing on the environment and dealing with matters of climate change, especially in our urban areas because that is where there are a lot of problems of air, river pollution, and so on, and so forth. I have talked about urban infrastructure. There is also the question of urban housing and there is a lot of scarcity of housing in the urban areas in this country, yet we can tap into Private Public Partnership (PPP), as this policy recommends. We need to increase allocation for housing infrastructure and we might need to reduce taxes. The President ordered that the National Construction Authority (NCA) should not levy any charges anymore on persons constructing houses in this country, including in the urban areas. This is because of the scarcity of houses in the country. In his speech during his inauguration for his second term, the President said that he is going to work towards creating 500,000 houses annually and he will work with the private sector to ensure that we have proper housing. Housing is a problem and it is expensive. A flat in a place like Lavington would go for about Kshs20 or Kshs25 million; while the same in Langata would go for Kshs13 or Kshs14 million. Where would a person who left the university five years ago get Kshs15 or Kshs14 million? Housing goes together with infrastructure. If we had a light railway system, people can stay in Kitengela, where they can buy their own house for Kshs3 million or Kshs4 million. They would live there, save the other money to progress their personal development and that of their families. Madam Temporary Speaker, I have utmost respect and total concern for social issues, particularly sports facilities. Sports facilities are not taken seriously in this The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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