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    "content": "who is below age, as stated in the Constitution; or ignore street families because they have chosen to go to the street. We should ensure that they are all in a safe abode. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as the Senate, we need to ensure that these people must be relocated to places where they can be taken care of properly. So, we need to look at the creation of affordable housing as per the principles of the ‘Big Four’ agenda. This Senate and Senators should help to identify areas of operation within their own counties where we can house these street families and hawkers. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would have loved to mention one or two things in front of the Senate Minority Leader, because he personally seemed hurt with what was going on in Eldoret. But I wanted to inform him that it is not right to also imagine that children can be dropped nowhere. If these children can identify their homes, it means that they are also desperate to be in their homes. If a child can tell you that I belong to a certain town, it means that they know where they came from. It also means that they can explain the conditions under which they moved. That is why I believe that these children who can identify where their homes are need not necessarily be forced to stay in their homes. But they should be taken to the children’s homes that we have in this country. As I said earlier, we also have organisations that are ready to rebuild the lives of these children. We should also be ready to offer that kind of support to these people. I am saying this because the contribution that we get from the street children and hawkers towards the building of slums is increasing. How can we be talking about the elimination of slums if, at the same time, we have no solution for these two categories of people? We must create solutions to the problem and menace of hawkers and street children because if they do not have a place, they will have to build something. When they build the shelters, sooner or later, these shelters will grow into slums. Mr. Chairman---"
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