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    "id": 949992,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, Sen. Sakaja only went to a tragedy site once but it appears like so many times because he is the head of a big delegation from Nairobi. I should have stated that Sen. Sakaja, the Nairobi Delegation and the leadership of Nairobi County are generally at every tragedy and they are always left to statements. It is not good to appear every time to contribute clothes and money to people who have lost their livelihood. The hawkers are the most taxed group of people. The taxation includes the corruption that is with the police officers and everybody who wants to collect money from them. Video clips of women hawkers being harassed are always making rounds because a majority of vendors in this country are women. The men in Nairobi hold on to watch out for the city council askaris and help the women hawkers to run away but the people who trade are women. The people who lose their clothes in Toi Market or Gikomba Market are women. Madam Temporary Speaker, when I was young, we used to take pride about Uhuru Highway. We used to call it Uhuru Highway Investments because we would buy very many nice things that were sold there but there was also contraband. Therefore, the trade by hawkers must be regulated. Mr. Ezekiel Mutua should have been there at the time to ban very explicit material that was sold to you if you rolled down your window. Regulation is important because it bothers me when I go to markets in Makueni County that there is no sanitation. Governors have opened markets all over the country. I am aware that even Sen. Kibiru’s Governor recently opened a market in Kirinyaga County. It amazes me that governors are putting up market stalls without putting up sanitation facilities. I am aware that the market traders in Makueni County have to pay for sanitation facilities in the neighborhood. It is ridiculous. I am happy that this Bill proposes that there must be sanitation facilities in the markets. However, there is something he forgot and that is why I introduced the disaster celebrities. The proposer of this Bill forgot to mention that fire is one of the biggest disasters for any of those people. Businesses were destroyed as a result of fire in Wote, Makueni County. Is there a way we can find some form of insurance, then the concerned governments can give some element of guarantees? Madam Temporary Speaker, most hawkers borrow money to set up businesses. Equity Bank has been good to the small traders. I commend the bank for supporting the local traders who go to them seeking loans without any security. Other mobile financial lending applications such as ‘Fuliza’ are helping the small traders. Could the proposer of this Bill in collaboration with Safaricom and other mobile service providers find a way of providing some form of insurance for the small traders? I do not know whether the proposer of this Bill is aware that M-Shwari trades the highest before 6.00 a.m. every day. The reason is because most of the users of M-Shwari are the women small traders who are trying to eke out a living very early. I am not very certain about categorizing street vendors. We can restructure that and ask them to register. We can copy what happens in Entebbe where street vendors are The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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