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    "id": 1184031,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1184031/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also rise to support the Petition of Hon. Kawaya. As we speak about pollution, we have just finished the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) where we talked about climate change. Looking at Athi River at the moment and its ecosystem… Nairobi has a lot of pollution that ends up at Athi River where people practise agriculture. We have ended up having a lot of cancer cases because of polluted water. It is important for this House to relook at the mandate of NEMA. Why are we having all these challenges yet we have an institution that ought to deal with them? When the Committee on Public Petitions will be looking at the Petition, it needs to look at the institutions that are supposed to deal with companies. Have we accepted this? Is it corruption that is choking us to give in and kill our people instead of being firm and ensure that companies that throw waste into rivers are charged and closed? As Kawaya said, their licences must be terminated so that we are serious and sensitize all citizens that these are our rivers. As Nairobians, we must clean Nairobi River for Athi River to be clean. I support and as Nairobians we will walk the journey with you because pollution starts with us as it pours to Athi River. Thank you."
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