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    "id": 774248,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. For the Senator who is part of the Nairobi County Delegation, Sen. Kwamboka, thank you for bringing this issue to the Floor. This is a matter that is of great concern to the whole country just as much as Nairobi. I am glad the other Senators have chipped in with the additional questions which I have noted. This is a matter that ideally - given the experience and what is happening especially in Nairobi - we will need, even as we get the responses, to deal with, together with the Standing Committees on Energy and Lands, Environment and Natural Resources. In what we have seen as a practice in the situations we have been in, there are two major causes of these fires. The first one is the illegal electric power connections in a lot of informal settlements. Already we have been in discussion with the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) on how we can properly provide electric power to people in the slums. For the record of this House, we will now need to mainstream that discussion together with the Standing Committee on Energy. I know there was the Last Mile Project; we will talk as it is. So, we will come together. That is one of the major causes. Secondly, we will need to liaise with the Standing Committee on Lands, Environment and Natural Resources. As the Senate Minority Leader has properly posited before this House, a lot of these fires are caused by land grabbers. Let us call them what they really are. By way of causing a fire in a slum, these land grabbers want to evict people so that they can fence the place and go on with their developments. You will find that a lot of the fires are on disputed lands. So, ideally, it is a matter that we will need to get proper responses not just from the Standing Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations, but in working together with the Standing Committees on Lands, Environment and Natural Resources and Energy. If I go to the additional questions, I do not know what to call them; the riders, there are many who have ridden on this question. Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the issue of the Persons living with Disabilities (PWDS), I would just like to mention that the PWDs in this country have a champion in this House. They must know that they have--- The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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