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"content": "na mambo ya mazingira. Mazingira ni muhimu na tunaelewa kuwa uharibifu wa mazingira unaleta magonjwa na mambo mengi ya hasara kwa binadamu. Lakini NEMA wako na tabia ya kutoa leseni kiholela bila kufikiria mikakati ambayo ingewekwa kudhibiti yale madhara yangeletwa na ule mradi unaoanzishwa. Hatukatai miradi kwenye nchi na waekezaji, lakini tunasema NEMA iwajibike kuthibitisha kwamba, ikiwa watatoa leseni kwa mradi wowote, wahakikishe pia wameweka mipango ya kuzuia athari na ajali za ule mradi utakaoletwa ile usidhuru watu. Bw. Naibu wa Spika, kwa hayo machache, nashukuru sana kwa huu muda mfupi."
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"content": "Sen. Kathuri): Asante sana, lakini naomba pia nikueleza ya kwamba NEMA ni Halmashauri ya Utunzi wa Mazingira ya Kenya."
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. The Senator for Nairobi wants to raise a point of order against me even before I have started. I take this opportunity to first pass my condolences and empathy to the entire Kenyatta University fraternity for the loss of lives in that bad accident. It is very sad that this happened and it is time to ask ourselves whether the drivers of these institutional buses should be the same drivers making long distance trips that take students to those long-distance trips. This is because they may be people who are not used to driving long distances. Even as we sympathize with the situation, we need to think about this. We also need to think about the state of our roads because, sometimes, some accidents can be avoided if we have better state of our roads. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, allow me to comment on the Statement you raised in your capacity as the Senator for Meru. The death or the murder of Sniper caught the attention of the whole country because of the way this young man was killed and his body found. If my memory serves me well, the body had been disfigured using some acid, and this is sad. The police must act. We pride in having the best investigative police service and I believe and hope that the police have not been compromised because by now, the killers, the perpetrators of this injustice should have been brought to book. The police must redeem their image in this matter because it was a serious and sad thing that should not have happened. We are politicians. Every morning, young men and women will critique us. They will condemn us and peddle half-truths and falsehoods against us, every morning on social media. However, we must learn to live - and I am not trying to presume that Sniper was killed by a politician - but having been a blogger, it is likely that this death was caused by a politician. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we must learn that when we offer ourselves to serve the public, we then expose ourselves and the people can say anything that they want against us. We must develop thick skins that anyone can say anything and the last thing any The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "person should think about is eliminating a young man or woman, simply because they criticized them on social media. This is something that everyone who offers themselves for public service must learn. In your Statement, you also talked about harassment and intimidation against a journalist and anyone who brings information to the public. I support that Statement because everybody must be given their right to report whatever they want to report, and if indeed, anyone has a problem, they should go to court and seek legal redress. I say this because some of us have been intimidated. Some of us may have said things that are not very kind to some people who are senior, maybe in the Government. When we speak our minds, we must also be protected as politicians. This is because if I rise and say that I stand up against intimidation, I stand up against open hatred, disrespect by whoever it is in authority, in this land or even out of this land, I should be protected. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am saying that some of us also feel threatened because of the utterances that we have made against some people in powerful offices."
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"content": "That is why we must say, without mincing words, that people must be protected; that the law must protect us and we have the freedom of expression! If you are mighty, if you are powerful and I stand up against you, you can do whatever you want, but you must not harm me. If you want to isolate me and do whatever you do, the Government must make sure that we are safe and we should not be intimidated, harassed or anything. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I say that because there are Senators here who are asking me why I am not in my county today, because everyone thought I should be in the county. However, I stand here to say that I have my rights as a Kenyan and I should not be intimidated by anybody! I will also comment on the Statement that was raised by Sen. Madzayo, the Senate Minority Leader, about environmental degradation in his county. We have quarries in Murang’a’ County and sometimes, the people who mine these building stones leave big uncovered depressions. When the rains come, they fill in these big depressions and sometimes, when children play around there or when one or two people take what the late Whispers used to call “Jeremiah Waters”, they sometimes fall into these depressions and lose their lives. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we must all in one accord agree and advise that anyone doing mining must manage these sites, especially after they leave, in order for us to continue assuring our people of their safety. We must come against pollution. When mining activities are done by these people, these miners and companies must see to it that pollution is prevented. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) must also be looked into. Let them build schools, hospitals, health centres et cetera, so that the people that live in these areas can benefit from these activities. They must benefit economically and financially because that is the right thing to happen. I support."
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