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    "id": 1151856,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1151856/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Seneta",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mary Yiane Senata",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you for giving me the chance to contribute to this important Bill. From the onset, I wish to state that this is an important and timely Bill. It is one of the Bills that I wish this House can pass before the next Senate. A clean and healthy environment is a constitutional right. Article 42 of the Constitution states that every citizen has the right to a clean environment. There is no infrastructure and system put in place in our counties to ensure that citizens are free from air pollution and environmental hazards. This Bill has come at the right time. It has a provision where the county governments can improve their structures, policies, regulations and standards on how to improve the environment. It has also given responsibilities and roles to the Cabinet secretary (CS) and the county governments with regards to making policies and regulations. This is important because, right now, collection of garbage in our counties, their transportation, lands and fields for dumping, water drainage systems, have all failed. We have no proper system to address these environmental matters."
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