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    "id": 1271906,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Soipan Tuya",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Forestry",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 926,
        "legal_name": "Roselinda Soipan Tuya",
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    "content": "proponents to go to the next step where they need to acquire the EIA permit and the Water Resource Authority (WRA) clearance for them to be issued with a special use licence. Therefore, the conditions have to be met. Let me go to Question two, which is on what measures the Government is taking to ensure that the land is available for the said project. Could the Cabinet Secretary provide a timeline for the commencement and completion? Mr. Speaker, Sir, as you have already noticed from my response to Question 1, the KFS constituted a technical planning committee on 2nd of May 2023. The technical report was submitted to the Chief Conservator on 8th May 2023 and the report approved and recommended for submission to the board. The committee prepared a board paper and requested that during the meeting of 22nd and 23rd for the board to consider to recommend approval by Tana water works development agency to construct the Ngariama Njukiini Water Project and associated infrastructure. The KFS board consider the request to access the station and construct the water treatment works for supply to the residents of Ngariama and Njukiini wards in Kirinyaga County on 27th May, 2023. The request was dully approved and we have the copies of the minutes attached here. The KFS has consequently made a communication of the decision of the board directors to the project proponent. We provided all that information in page 9 to demonstrate that we are within the due process and the stipulated time frame. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you realize the boards of state agencies are allowed to meet once every quarter. From the time our board was constituted, to the time they processed the request from the project proponent, we are in time. However, the process is yet to complete, it will only become fully executable once we have the EIA report from National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) and WRA authorization for us to be able to issue the special use licence. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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