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    "id": 1151890,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 407,
        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
        "slug": "ledama-olekina"
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    "content": "The county governments should develop a policy. We should not have a CS sitting down and saying that we are now going to develop a policy on how we are going to manage waste. We will also devolve this policy, so that the county governments and assemblies will develop a policy that will be put in their CIDPs for five years. This is ridiculous. Madam Deputy Speaker, if we are serious as legislators and want to help this country deal with the issue of waste management, the first thing we need to do is to reduce it in our own homes. In our own households, every so often - I will give an example of these temporary homes that we live in Nairobi - every so often, there are trucks that come to collect waste. What we do there is to bundle all the waste in one basket. The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) is another body where people just collect money for the sake of it. They do nothing. What NEMA should be doing is to say: “Sen. Poghisio, you need to have three bins. Bin number one is for all organic waste; all the food and vegetables. Bin number two is for all recyclable materials; papers and plastic. Bin number three is any other hazardous waste of bottles and stuff like that, which we can recycle. We need first of all to define what can be recycled and what can also be used to generate revenue.” If you go to Italy - and I went there to study the issue of waste management about 10 years ago – you will see companies that make billions of shillings. Even in the USA where I lived for 20 years, waste management companies make billions because they create dams, where they go and recycle the food that you waste. They also take that and turn it into organic manure. Here, even when we are constructing the roads, you will find that the people who have been given the tender to construct the roads go and cut the trees. When they cut the trees, they expose us to all these environmental hazardous things. They bring drought and just sell that for firewood. The leaves are just left to rot right there. They are swept away and sometimes just dumped in Dandora. I will give you an example of Nakuru. In Nakuru, there is a very good friend of mine called Zakayo, who owns a timber yard. When I came back from Italy, I went to his timber yard. His timber yard is a mill where he has been milling timber for a long time. As a result, the waste is almost as high as this Parliament. It just sits there. When I got there, I said, Jesus! These are billions of shillings. With simple equipment, you turn that to create compost and use it to grow trees. You can use it for your flower gardens. We have buildings now coming up, where people are planting trees. I have one of those. You cannot put soil there; you use compost. I think what we need to do first before we even think of passing a law like this is to ask ourselves whether we are ready to have a clean environment. If we are, what is the work of NEMA? NEMA should be engaging county governments in ensuring that they clean their cities first. Our cities are dustbins. If you go to our markets, they are dustbins and there is no county government that wants to improve on the markets because the person who is cleaning there wants to make some little money, but they are still filthy. Therefore, I do not think I can support such a Bill that all it aims to do, and I am sorry, Senate Majority Leader, you are just a messenger--- I will spare that a little bit, but"
}