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    "content": "my place in Tot in Elgeyo Marakwet County. There is also produce from Sen. Cherargei’s Nandi County. They come and dump them in Eldoret, go away and say that Gov. Mandango is not cleaning the town. These are the challenges that we must deal with because of the pressure that comes from what you have as a city. I just wanted to mention the uniqueness. Finally, we also have the issue of dealing with the marginalised groups. How do you deal with, for example, the Nubians who live in Kibera and who call Nairobi their home? There are people who are called Nairobians. There are others who sojourn in Nairobi while others are visitors. If you ask someone whether he is going home, he will refute and say that he is just going to the house because they do not regard Nairobi as a home. However, we have a few of our children or a certain generation may be of my age and below who were born in Nairobi and call Nairobi home. We also have people who are indigenous like the Nubians who live in Nairobi and other parts of the country where we have indigenous communities. How do you take care of their concerns as part and parcel of the communities that live in the city? How do you also take care of the women and Persons with Disabilities (PWDs)? The biggest issue with the marginalised groups or persons with disabilities is infrastructure. Do all the buildings provide the ramps that will ensure that everybody can access them? People are just building houses and nobody cares about the interests of persons with disabilities. It is not even about whether they care that there will be someone with disability who will want to access the building, they do not care that they might also be the ones who would need the ramps. Even a simple act of playing football can lead to an injury that can easily make you immobile for sometimes just like the hon. Member who got hurt the other day when we were in Dar es Salaam. It may not be permanent, but it can make you disabled for two years. How will you access your house, office and other places that you work in? That is also a very important issue when it comes to marginalised communities and groups. How do you deal with gender mainstreaming in management of public urban areas and the concerns of people in urban areas? How do you protect children because they can easily get lost or get abused? The acts of defilement are many in these urban areas and towns because there are people of different types, it is easy to hide and it is a place where you deal with matters of crime and social problems like drug abuse. Those unique challenges require that every county must adopt mechanisms that can respond to the challenges that are here. Therefore, once we approve this policy which is nice, but just a skeleton, we have to go back to the Urban Areas and Cities Act and see if there are more areas of response that we need to provide in this law to ensure that it is responsive to the challenges that people are facing? How can we be enabled by county governments by sharing their experiences for the last five years on the management of urban areas, so that we can have a unique way of dealing with these issues? How can we protect people who live in urban areas? Sometimes you have an urban area having, for example, a unique business community, that is, people who are not necessarily many in the county itself, but they live The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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