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    "id": 886145,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wamatangi",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Kimani Wamatangi",
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    "content": "Thank you Madam Temporary Speaker. My intervention is on the Statement by Sen. Sakaja of Nairobi City County. Now that the Senator for Kericho County has withdrawn the rumor, the Chair should have sought further clarification as to how you withdraw a rumor. But I do not want to get there. Madam Temporary Speaker, I support the Statement that was made by Sen. Sakaja. It may interest Sen. Sakaja and other Senators that a few years ago, I undertook a project to build toilets and sanitation facilities for inhabitants of Mukuru kwa Njenga and Shauri Village. The point I am trying to make is, when I undertook that project, I did it on humanitarian grounds after visiting some of those areas and I found people living in conditions that you cannot believe. There were families where a father, mother, and children live in the same room divided by manila paper and that house also serves as their toilet. You can imagine the shame of living in such a place. Madam Temporary Speaker, those people you find living under power lines, it is not that they do not know it is dangerous; they know it is. It is not that they do not know that their lives are at risk; they know. Sometimes they have absolutely no alternative. I agree with the Senator that it is not for us to advocate or support that such people should build under such precarious conditions but, even the process of demolition and those affected must wear a human face. You cannot have people living under such conditions but it is wrong for an institution or parastatal like Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) to go there and flatten those ramshackles wantonly without any consideration. Those people do not have any other alternative. I would advocate that at any one time when any institution is going to demolish even those slums, let them first consider --- If you look at what happens in other countries where we"
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