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    "id": 1122892,
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    "speaker_name": "Narok North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Richard ole Kenta",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Moitalel ole Kenta",
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    "content": "Somebody has said we have left this matter open-ended. If you read Recommendation No. 2, we are very clear that NEMA shall submit a Satisfactory Compliance Report to the National Assembly after 60 days upon adoption of this Report by the House. So, if you adopt it today within 60 days there must be a Report. There is no open-ended issue here and the most important thing is, has anything been done. Yes, and it still needs to be done. As somebody said, the damage caused to people and the environment is irreversible and once it is done that is it. At the moment, we are saying these people have put it in place the so-called state-of-the-art equipment as indicated and they spent some money on this. The Members went there and saw this. This was a Sub-Committee of five Members and four signed the Report, that is why Members should read it before castigating the Committee. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have done the best we could. It is now for this Parliament to adopt this Report and follow up. The most important thing here is Government policy. Even if we pass everything here and there is no policy and law to follow up on these things, we are doing nothing. It will just be grandstanding and playing to the gallery to no effect. I beg to reply and thank all the Members for their input. I request we adopt this Report which is very important. If we throw it out, we are saying the people of Athi River and those downstream to die and their livestock to perish. That is what we will be doing if we try to throw this Report out. It will be damaging and catastrophic and this House will have failed in its duty to the Kenyan people. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to reply and move that the putting of the Question be deferred under Standing Order No. 53 (3)."
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