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    "id": 1157339,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1157339/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kasanga",
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        "legal_name": "Sylvia Mueni Kasanga",
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    "content": "There are so many interventions currently in this country, that can stop these companies and hotels from discharging untreated waste into the Mara River. We have very good bio digesters currently in use, that can be used for such purposes in this country. It is not even a question of policy or law; it becomes a question of implementation. Where are the people who are supposed to oversee that companies adhere to the standards that are set for some of these things? It is really a travesty. When it comes to issues of fertilizers, insecticides and agrochemicals; again Kenya has ratified many protocols to do with climate change and making sure our food production use certain kinds of fertilizers and insecticides. These are things which just need the people who are supposed to be working, to make sure that Kenyans are doing the right things. It seems like something happened somewhere and we do not have any more people going out there to make sure Kenyans are doing what needs to be done. It is really sad. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I appreciate this Statement and the weight of it. Let us realise that the more we become urbanized, the more we are not planning for our wildlife corridors. I can tell you this because in Kitengela where I reside, the corridors from the Nairobi National Park into the wildlife conservancies that are within the Machakos area, have been blocked. The animals cannot move around again. This is the cost of urbanisation and not planning for how human beings and animals coexist, yet we know how much we value our wildlife as a country. We know how much it brings into our country as an income earner. That goes to our planning people in our urban centers. While they are planning these things, what happens? Why are they not prioritising this relationship between human beings and the animals and how they can coexist for the betterment of our country? I thank the Senator for Vihiga County for this Statement. I truly hope that the next Government that we are going to form in Azimio, will look into these things because this is a question of implementation."
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