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    "id": 1025719,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Isiolo North, KPP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Hassan Hulufo",
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        "legal_name": "Hassan Oda Hulufo",
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    "content": "breathe and we are also exposing those who have settled in these areas to risk, especially during heavy rains because when there are floods and when the water systems are constrained when we encroach on riparian areas, one of the most obvious repercussions is that we are going to have floods. These floods normally pose risk to investments, human life and so on. Also, the encroachers are also to a large extent responsible for polluting our water systems. For Lake Victoria, for example, the various rivers are polluted. Most of these rivers, particularly Sabaki, Athi and many other rivers which pass through Nairobi serve so many people in the lower parts of Eastern and Coast. Therefore, the pollution by the encroachers has health consequences for people who live downstream. Some of the heavy metals for example from industrial effluents can get into our systems through food chains and cause diseases, including cancer. In the Report, we have tried to highlight various areas where encroachment has taken place. For example, in Mombasa County, we have seen how various developers with conditional licences which in some cases seem to be issued contrary to provisions of the law, have encroached on the ocean and how they have reclaimed the ocean contrary to the laws regulating the oceans and how, for example, mangroves have been cleared to make way for constructions and so on and so forth. As I wind up, I would like to particularly talk about restoration of the Nairobi Dam which is one of our key recommendations and also for the Nairobi City County to extend sewer lines to the Village Market which at the moment is having sewer treatment works in a wetland. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the time."
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