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    "id": 1025711,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 376,
        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
        "slug": "millie-odhiambo-mabona"
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    "content": "no proper legal framework, you will find that there is a lot of pollution, emission of toxic materials and raw waste that endanger lives. That is why even the cases of cancer have gone high. There is diversion of the natural course of rivers, encroachment into riparian lands and also reclamation in some instances which are not legal. Sometimes people also do things erroneously without information. For instance, I was building a very good facility and I informed my own community where they need to build it, but for them they thought it was more practical to build it by the lake. Right now, the lake has reclaimed the place. The reason why that is there even though we have the legal framework is because they are all clashing. We do not even have one definition of what a riparian land is. Therefore, it means that at some point when we want to reclaim riparian lands you find that some people really followed the law even when they were building right next to a river. They used one piece of law against the other. What I was hoping for is that the Committee would have made a very strong recommendation that we need to reclaim riparian lands even though I know we have difficulties with that. However, if we do not do that we will experience problems like the one of the children who were caught up in floods in Langata a few years ago and it happens in Nairobi all the time because of the way people have diverted the course of the river and all that. In reclaiming riparian lands, we must also take into account the people who are not aware about these laws which we call, in law, the third-user without notice. I was hoping that the Committee would come with a draft law. Therefore, I encourage the Committee to come up with a law so that instead of just lamenting, we have the power, as the National Assembly, to deal with this problem that has bedeviled us for years once and for all. So, I am putting back to the Committee to kindly come up with a draft law that would help us sort out this issue. Otherwise, I support."
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