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    "id": 984165,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "as both sides have something to do with it, I am pleading with Nairobians to support the Government because the curfew is a reality. That boy was shot by a stray bullet that was fired by the police officers, who were dispersing a crowd that was pelting them with stones. No one is on the right and that life will never be revived. All of us have some responsibility to know that the curfew is not a joke. We must adhere to it, but the police must also serve the people. Tomorrow, we will be dealing with the family. The young man was buried today. Some of the interventions that we must do, and I am glad that the Committee will focus on them, are as follows: First, the provision of water in the 17 constituencies of Nairobi is critical. We have boreholes that are inactive in Nairobi because of very flimsy reasons. Some of them need mortars and mechanical parts. We need immediate analysis of the status of the boreholes and their reactivation. We urgently need 510 water tanks in our slums. I have been appealing for this since the day we met. We are telling our people to wash their hands. We are asking them to put handwashing stations in their areas, yet they have no water in their houses. We have spoken to the Nairobi Water and Sewerage Company to relax the rationing. They have done so because their reservoirs are full. However, we need 510 tanks in these places. If I knew that the Senate would give Kshs200 million, I would have appealed for just Kshs30 million to make sure that Nairobians get water. You can imagine what will happen to the rest of the country if Nairobians get this infection. We need immediate facilitation of handwashing points. Secondly, the people of Nairobi cannot access food because they do not have farms of their own. In the rural areas, maybe, you can get some maize or greens. In Nairobi, we do not have it. We need urgent food rations and the supply chain must be secured. We have agreed on that and will hold a meeting soon. I hope that this Committee can do it with the leaders of these markets and owners of posho mills. We have over 1,600 posho mills in the database. We need to subsidize at that point because most of the people in the informal sector do not buy their food from the supermarkets. They buy ile ya kupima and oil. We need to subsidize at that point. This is because we have links and know those particular stores. Therefore, we will be able to help them. That is extremely important. This House must reallocate some of the budgets. We cannot be talking about billions today for large infrastructure projects if we cannot feed people in our informal settlements and slums. That is urgent and we must do it. Thirdly, we need economic cushioning. Fuel prices must go down. World fuel prices have gone down by 40 per cent, yet our pump prices have gone down by only Kshs2. That needs to be looked at. We have huge night economies in this City that include Disc Jockeys (DJs), bartenders, musicians, bouncers, taxi drivers et cetera, who need to be cushioned. I beg for two minutes because of the---"
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