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    "id": 1151904,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1151904/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "to handle waste management. There is one person who drives a truck and goes around homesteads picking all the dirt from organized bins, for papers, organic waste and all that. This is a topic that we need to discuss. Kenya was amongst the first countries to ban the use of single use plastic papers and it has made a lot of difference. In fact, our country was more dirty when we used plastic papers around. It seems to have come back through the backdoor because I see them in the estates. However, largely, its being banned has reduced the waste that we see around. Madam Deputy Speaker, there is urgency to have the Waste Management Bill because it needs to be regulated by defining the parameters. Therefore, I disagree with my brother, Sen. Olekina, that this is one of the most useless Bills. We have the powers as legislators to legislate on anything under the sun as long as it is within the interest of the jurisdiction that is Kenya. Therefore, it is important that we debate it. I also think that this is a preserve of county governments. It is a Bill concerning counties and that is why it found itself here. This matter needs to be legislated by county assemblers. They should think of how best to manage wastes. There are many good proposals. If it is privatized, it has a higher rate of success. I have been approached by people who would want to custom-make waste management factories in places like Kiambu where I come from. They have very good ideas, but the challenge is that it becomes another money minting exercise. The people do not want to sit down and agree that they have good leadership that would follow through these plans. Madam Deputy Speaker, this is a largely oratorical question. By next year, it will be six decades since we got Independence. I wonder whether we are heavily investing in good leadership that would espouse such kind of ideas and see them through. You find that progressive governors are unlikely to make it in this coming general election because, may be, they do not play into the gallery and are not out there politicking all the time. I know and do not want to mention names. I bemoan the fact that those people who are usually focused and dedicated are dismissed to as being aloof and unreachable. All of us now are in the campaign mode. I can see mama signal, Sen. Shiyonga. I wish her well so that she becomes the Women Representative for Kakamega County. I know that we are not in the same coalition, but I, as a good friend and a sister in Christ, wish her well that she may win the election. However, how many times can you receive people’s phone calls? If you receive all the phone calls that you get on your phone, then you will not be working. However, that is the main complaint of the constituents. They want you to receive all their calls and answer to all their needs. That means giving them handouts and such things. From my own experience, we only need four to three months of campaigning. That is enough to produce the kind of leaders as long as we have robust laws that midwife such kind of leadership. In spirit, the Waste Management Bill is very good, but then it falls short when it is tested in terms of copy-pasting some kind of mathematical formula where the drafters have always been creating authorities, councils and agencies, which have a board"
}