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    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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        "legal_name": "John Kiarie Waweru",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute. I want to first say a big thank you to this Committee and also commend the Chair for taking time, after a very long trip, to very ably move a very important Report this afternoon. This is a good Report. I want to support it. There is someone by the name of Barry Commoner who I want to associate myself with. He says that environmental pollution is an incurable disease, we can only prevent it. When some of these things we call degradation of the environment happen, they are irreversible. So, even when we want to get into a conversation between the profits being made and the employment that is being done and the degradation that is being occasioned, we have to associate ourselves with Mr. Mahatma Gandhi who says that enterprise without ethics is one of the seven deadliest sins. I stand here knowing that the London Distillers we are talking about are actually perennial offenders, not only of environmental degradation, but also of bullying communities that they live and reside in. It cannot be a question of who came first because even if the London Distillers came before the residents who settled there, they still have to practice ethical business and more importantly protect our environment. By 2019, we were being told that we are having more 5,000 abnormal deaths. They are what you call premature deaths, caused by environmental degradation. This is air pollution alone. This is evaluation of 2019, one year alone. So, you can imagine if we started letting these offenders get away with a pat on their backs. We shall end up killing an entire generation. So, I want to say The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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