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    "content": "country. Sports should be taken as a way of culture, to ensure that we exercise regularly so that the people are fit and healthy. This is very good, but where are the sports facilities? All the public lands have been grabbed and the ones that are there are not developed. When I went to study abroad, as you did, we would study during the day and then go to the field in the evening at around 7 p.m. or 8 p.m. We would play in the field for about two hours and then go back to shower and continue reading. This was possible because we had a stadium or a small field that is owned by the community and we did not have to pay anything. It was well lit with floodlights. I am a member of a small club of retirees – I do not think that we should call it a club of retirees but they are people who retired from playing football when they were young – we play on Friday evening. We have to queue because there is only one good field in Eastland’s in a place called Toyoyo Camp. We have to queue because our group plays from 10.00 p.m. up to midnight. But if there were ten Toyoyo Camps in this city, we would get the chance to play. However, there is only one and there is one group which booked to play from 7.00 p.m. up to 8.00 p.m. Another group then books to play as from 8.00 p.m. up to 10.00 p.m. and that then leaves our group with the option of playing between 10.00 p.m. up to midnight. That would not happen if we had the necessary training facilities in this town, like ten Toyoyo camps. I want to thank the former Member of Parliament (MP) famously known as “Bena” for doing a very good job. I hope his successor in Makadara Constituency will do a better job because sports facilities are very important. I have talked to some of my friends who are MPs in this city, telling them that they can borrow something from Toyoyo Camp so that our children can have a place where they can go and play. Similarly, the rest of us can also have a place to go and exercise so that we can avoid certain kinds of diseases and live a healthy life because of those sports facilities. We also need to develop sportsmen – footballers, athletes, tennis and golf players – to ensure that we progress as a country. Therefore, Madam Temporary Speaker, we need to deal with health facilities in the city. You cannot leave Nairobi County Government alone to deal with health issues; there must be partnership with the National Government. This is because the pressure of providing services to about seven million people at any given day is not easy. People blame the Governor of Nairobi County or those who run Nairobi County Government. If about two million people come to this city every day, dumping their bananas from Kisii and Thika; their potatoes from Nyandarua and cabbages from Kiambu, they then go away and say that Nairobi is dirty. Nairobi is not just dirty because--- Can you imagine having two million people coming to this city every day; how many toilets do they need? Toilet facilities must be provided for. There is a lot of waste that they bring from outside this city. So, we are all culpable for making Nairobi dirty. We should, therefore, support Nairobi City County Government. I am giving Nairobi as an example because the same happens in Mombasa. Mombasa has a big population during the day and so does Eldoret. Eldoret Town, for example, attracts people from Kitale, West Pokot and Elgeyo Marakwet, who come with all kinds of farm produce such as bananas and mangoes from The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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