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    "id": 1151900,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Shiyonga",
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        "id": 13181,
        "legal_name": "Masitsa Naomi Shiyonga",
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    "content": "health hazards within our environment are managed. We really have a big a problem with most of the estates that are mushrooming in the country. Madam Deputy Speaker, NEMA has totally failed us when it comes to waste management and air pollution. Where I live, we are always complaining about NEMA because it has policies that cannot be sustained, reviewed or leased. When you go to NEMA right now with a complaint of waste management or assessment of pollution in a certain estate, they do not have an answer, but want you to convince them. Why should we have authorities and councils in addition to NEMA, that we need to convince, yet their work is to act and sustain our waste management? We have had cases where counties charge businesses and business operators for waste management without delivering the services. They are just making money and booming businesses through the officers who are there. However, nobody can show you where these county governments take the money that they collect from this. Instead, they come up with their own businesses and collect money on behalf of the county government, whereas the business is theirs. Why should we continue to pump money or create jobs in county governments just to continue with the cases of corruption that we are trying to control and talk about in this Senate? Madam Deputy Speaker, with the advent of regional economic development blocs, it is worth noting that the Bill provides the inter-county cooperation on waste management, which is a good thing but, again, let us look at it closely. How are these economic blocs working currently? Although these are additional authorities to what we already have with NEMA, I totally disagree with the content and set up of this Bill with regards to creation of additional jobs in the county governments, which will lead to more corruption and wastage funds. I feel that we should not support this Bill. It should go back. We should not vote for it because we will waste resources and open avenues for corruption and nepotism when it comes to employment. Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. That is my contribution. I do not support."
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