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    "id": 971550,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Zani",
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        "legal_name": "Agnes Zani",
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    "content": "Death does not just become a transition as such; it is a transition for the person who has died, but it is still a transition for the community in terms of how they will carry themselves, conduct the burial and what they will do. There are some people who leave wills so it is clear where they want to be buried. There are incidents where someone has left a will or the family has decided: “Let us bury him at Lang’ata Cemetery. You will find everybody asking: Why are they burying him at Lang’ata? What is the problem? Did they not have a house? Did they not have a piece of land? What happened? At Lang’ata Cemetery, there are different allocations for people in different areas. There are particular areas where after sometime the soil is recycled. So, you will have bones coming up and the place is set up again for more burials. What would happen? You would want to imagine, in a country that is developing so fast – currently our population stands at 47 million and soon we are going to hit 70 million - how do we want to manage the dead? This is something that we need to talk about and Sen. (Dr.) Milgo’s Motion is telling counties to prepare for this. Just as we did when we were mapping Mariakani in the digital planning session that I was involved in then, as a consultant in Mariakani, one of the issues we decided on was to allocate some land for a cemetery. It is helpful because there are those who will need to be buried in cemeteries. This is an issue where we cannot have a definite rule. We cannot say that everybody must be buried in a cemetery because cultures and traditions dictate in some instances. However, there are those who will have places to be buried in and there are those who will need to be buried in a cemetery. Sen. Were talked about Busia County where somebody would be buried just behind the home and that the culture then was that after sometime they would be able to move away. However, probably now, with the way land is filling up so fast, maybe they are not able to move away as easily as they were able to move before. You know, we also have the health aspects again depending on how deep the grave is. Sometimes the grave may not be so deep and you could have somebody or an animal exhuming the body. So, there is need to have some order. We are lucky now that we have some funeral parlours in Nairobi and a few in Mombasa. When Montezuma, Monalisa and Lee funeral homes started, everybody was worried. People used to joke that how would you answer if you own a funeral home and are asked how the business is. If you said the business was doing well, it meant you were happy that people were dying. People cracked jokes, talked about it and asked questions. However, over time, people have begun to understand this."
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