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    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) James Nyikal",
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    "content": "hazardous waste, but it excluded some hazardous waste like radioactive materials. You do not immediately understand what they are talking about if they include that. I support the Bamako initiative because its language is much stronger. It prohibits things like radioactive waste. It was noted that the Basel Convention exposed Africa and other countries to hazardous waste. In countries without proper regulation, and where there is corruption, it is not unconceivable for people to accept importation or movement of hazardous waste at a cost. There were cases, like in Nigeria and Ivory Coast, where hazardous wastes were found. For Members who are asking when the Bamako Convention first came into force, it was sometime in 1998. A number of African countries have signed it. The Bamako Convention is basically an African agreement between African countries, which is desirable because we are the most vulnerable. Where does all the e-waste - the computers, laptops and handsets we use - go? They have to be taken somewhere. Where do plastic waste and other non-biodegradable materials go? Developed countries export the waste to Africa. When batteries, including ordinary ones based on acid are no longer useful, you throw them away. In the process, they contaminate the environment with their acidic material. Lithium batteries are actually radioactive. These are things we use virtually every day. Some medical wastes are very hazardous and not easily moved. Where do they go? Some of them, such as x-ray and scanning machines, are radioactive. Where do those things go? Those are the wastes we are being protected from. Some of the things we use contain mercury, which is long lasting. When it goes into the environment, it contaminates it. It is even transmitted to unborn children. Therefore, this is a useful convention that we should sign so that we are together with the other African countries that have signed it. We need to review it, incorporate advancements that have come and amend what we need to. I agree with Hon. Oundo that we are late in considering this convention, but we should sign it. People put these…"
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