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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Soipan Tuya",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Environment Climate Change and Forestry",
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        "legal_name": "Roselinda Soipan Tuya",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Again, the question by Sen. Cheruiyot as a follow-up to that one by Sen. Okenyuri. I know I am giving a very global response to this, but we have effluent discharge strategies. You realise that our rivers are not even black. The Nairobi River’s ecosystem goes up to the Indian Ocean. When you follow the trend of it from the Ondiri swamp up to the Indian Ocean, it is distressing. I want the nation to know that we are concerned and deeply so, because we are not doing well at all. There have been actions that have been taken in the past, but very disjointed and ad hoc in nature. However, we are setting the stage for initiatives that will be sustainable. One of which is an effluent discharge strategy, which we already have. You realise that, for example, the Nairobi River is about our industries that are not taking care of their waste and they imagine that the rivers are the dustbins or the place where they open their sewage and effluent discharge into. The action there is to actualise our “polluter pay” principle, which is properly placed within our law, but we now need people to take responsibility. The polluters; the manufacturers and the producers have to think through their product from the point of production up to the end of where the products are going to end. For those people that are not taking responsibility for the waste that they produce in the course of their production businesses, we are going to act under the “polluter pay” principle. People have to pay for their waste; people have to demonstrate how they visualise the waste they produce up to the end."
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