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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "will be honest to say that this Bill just aims to create authority; to give the Cabinet Secretary more jobs for nothing. In fact, the first thing we should do is that NEMA should come up with regulations. They should sit down with the county governments and look at your spatial plan. Where are we getting income? When we are getting income, let us use technology to ensure that Sen. Poghisio, who owns this building, has got the responsibility to ensure that in that building waste management is priority number one. He must have three bins. If he does not have three bins, then he should not be issued with a license. That is how we develop clean environments. Therefore, it will be Sen. Poghisio’s responsibility to ensure that every person who occupies that building as a tenant is responsible. That responsibility will also be able to spread even in our homes. The only thing that NEMA did, which I think we should congratulate them or the Ministry of Environment, is to ban plastics because our counties were littered with plastic waste all across. They are still there because they still find their panya routes to come into the country, but at least, it is better than before. There is no way a legislation is going to come and help clean our cities when we are all dirty and filthy. The first thing that we need to do is to recognize that we do not need a law to manage our waste. Secondly, we should ensure that we can now use that waste to make money. If my good friend, Mzee Zakayo, in Nakuru would just buy a small machine, he would be exporting fertilizer. He would be exporting composite, just like it is exported all over. If you go to Game Supermarket now or Carrefour, you will find compost, which has been imported from other countries as if we do not have waste in this country. I do not think I can support this Bill. I am sorry that the person who drafted it had good intentions because he wants to see a clean environment. However, cleanliness starts with you. Now, how we deal with this matter? First, every county government must ensure that before they issue a license to either a building or anybody, that person must come up with a policy or plan on how to manage that waste. Everyone pays a license and, in that license, there is waste management fee. However, that money is just collected and mixed with other resources, and those county governments do even clean those cities. I was in West Pokot recently and would actually say that the small towns that we went to campaign were clean because people do not have a lot. However, here in Nairobi, it is because we accumulate a lot and do shopping a lot. People in the small towns go to the market once a week to buy their food. So, you will find a small plastic bag and everything. We should learn from our rural areas that are clean, so that where we live in these urban areas, we ensure that NEMA does its job. We should not have another authority being created by a Cabinet Secretary. It is just a way of syphoning public funds. NEMA ought to look back and say what is it that we can do to perform our functions. This Bill is one of the worst Bills that I have ever seen in this Parliament. I hope that we can all come of age, such that when we come and introduce legislations in this Parliament, we do away with this nonsense of creating authorities. In fact, this is called a Waste Management Council. We give it such a beautiful name and you also now give the"
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