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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mathioya, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kimaru",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Kimari Kihara",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to support the Report. At the outset, I would like to tell the House that I was privileged to be part of the team under the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources that looked into the matters of LDK, Edermann Limited and the area that the two find themselves in. I am also privileged to be a Member of the Committee on Implementation. I was also part of the team that visited LDK to see the levels of compliance to the Report that had been prepared by the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, which I was part of. What we found at LDK when we went there for the first time was deplorable. Indeed, we wondered whether NEMA was able to look into the issues that are required to be complied with by the factories and industries that are around that area. When we visited, we came up with certain issues that needed to be looked into. Key among them was that LDK must invest in state-of-the- art equipment that will improve their production and ensure that they can reduce their environmental degradation in the area. The reports we received from experts who were versed with the information that was required and what we saw, they were already past the threshold that was required. They were not 100 per cent. What they said that any industry can be 100 per cent non-pollutant is not right. It is not possible. Even if you go to the first world countries, you cannot get industries that are 100 per cent non pollutant. Because we need them and we have to live with them, what we require is to ensure that this process is continuous. I am happy to say that my Chairman alluded to it and in our recommendation, we have stated that this is a lifetime commitment. We need to ensure that we inculcate a culture of improving our environment. The other issue we also realised is that Mavoko is fast becoming an industrial zone. We have a lot of companies there. We have almost seven factories in that area. We have tanning factories and many other industries that are coming up in that area. We also mandated NEMA to check on the levels of pollution in other industries in the area so that we do not look like we are zoning on only one company. Going forward, LDK should continuously improve. Have they done something? Yes. When we went there the first time, we found open sewers running across the area. When we went the second time, a lot had been done, not to perfection but they there is definitely room for improvement. There is no room for us to say that they are not doing what is required. For me, this is a lifetime commitment. As the area Member of Parliament said, this is a company that is employing many people and also generating a lot of wealth for this country. Beyond that, environment is a must particularly 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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