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    "id": 863871,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "I am afraid that although Sen. Wetangula has raised a concern about this Petition having stayed for too long without being handled, we have another challenge that this Senate is going on recess in another two days. However, this Petition as important as it is, might lapse. I will seek that you give some directions as to its fate after Thursday. This is because even if we commit it today, I believe under the Standing Orders, it will have lapsed after Thursday. Secondly, I hope this Petition goes to the Senate Committee on Land, Environment and Natural Resources. This is because the question of planning of our counties has been sitting in this Senate under the Physical Planning Bill that has now been transformed to the Land Use Planning Bill for the whole of this term. This Senate should pronounce itself on land use planning, not just in Kisumu, but in all counties. I have dumping of medical waste in Makueni in a place called Kikumini. There is also the dumping of sewage in Two Rivers in Nairobi. All these things are about waste management. Nairobi and other cities, including Kisumu are going to choke in dumpsites unless we address the question of Land Use Planning Bill, which is before this Senate. Can we not pass this Bill so that we can guide this country? Otherwise, we will continue lamenting while that issue is here. Can we plan where Nyeri County will build homes, dumpsites, do Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) centres etcetera ? It is in the land use plainly that the waste management will be handled properly. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, under the Urban Areas and Cities Act, Kisumu County just like any other - I have said here that Kisumu County is, probably, the only county that has a city board - should have consulted the citizens about the dumpsite and conducted public participation. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I hope the Committee will not spend too much time here, but go there and find out that this is not only a dumpsite for purposes of what Sen. Wetangula has said because it is a nuisance to everybody. The foul smell and the birds that we are talking about is something that should concern everybody. It is an eyesore. I wonder where the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority were when somebody put a dumpsite like we would do either at Wilson Airport or Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. Where were these people? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, to me, the question of the lapse of this Petition is of utmost concern. The fact that this Petition has delayed in the Senate, we as a House should not punish Mheshimiwa Shabbir who sits in the other House, but thinks this is a House of wisdom to have brought the Petition to the “upper” House or the Senate. Let us not let this gentleman down. I thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir."
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