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    "id": 1151830,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Dullo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Dullo Fatuma Adan",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I will be very brief in seconding this Bill. This is really a very important piece of legislation and it is long overdue. I will only comment on a few areas that I think that I really feel that this Bill is very important, especially Clause 2 which has really captured the gist of the legislation. Waste management activity clearly highlights the importation and exportation of waste as prescribed by regulation of waste, including any activity or process that is likely to result in generation of the waste. It also highlights on accumulation and storage of the waste, collection and handling of the waste, which is very important, reduction, reusing, recycling and recovery of the waste. There are many countries that have really made a lot of money from this particular kind of management recycling of the waste and also recovery of the same, and trading in waste which is also very critical. I think once we pass this legislation, it will help this country to generate revenue from this process. I think there are ways of actually transporting waste. Where I live, in Lavington, sometimes you will see a whole truck full of waste and sometimes smelling almost an hour along the road. That is not good because we are polluting the air. I think it is very important to have proper ways of transporting the waste. Transfer, treatment of waste and the disposal of the waste is also very important. We have been having a lot of challenges as far as waste management in our counties is concerned, especially in market areas, in hospitals and around our homes. If we have proper legislation in place on how waste is managed, then we will live as a healthy country. Clause 3 highlights the object of this Bill. One of them is to promote sustainable waste management. In most of our counties, there are no strategies or ways of promoting sustainable waste management despite counties having budgetary allocations for those municipalities. Mr. Speaker, Sir, improving of health of Kenyans by ensuring clean and healthy environment is also another factor that we need to take very seriously. Over the years, there are people who were doing exploration in Northern Kenya. They left a lot of waste, which is actually dangerous to the health of the communities living in those areas. If we have proper legislation such as this one, it will be able to help the communities manage their health and also ensure that the areas are left clean and healthy. It will also reduce, air, land, freshwater and marine pollution; promote and ensure effective delivery of waste services, which is also very critical and create enabling environment for employment in the green economy in waste management recycling and recovery. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I said earlier, if we do that, there will be creation of employment within our counties. Many of our youth who are unemployed will be able to get employment in this country."
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