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    "id": 1281426,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) James Nyikal",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Chairman, I beg to move: THAT, the Bill be amended by deleting Clause 7. That means, in the Bill, Clause 7 will partly read as follows: “Section 8 of the principal Act is amended in subsection (2) by− (a) inserting the following new paragraphs immediately after paragraph (b)— …” Section 8 of the Climate Change Act is on the powers and duties of the Cabinet Secretary. In the Act, the Cabinet Secretary shall — (a) formulate and periodically review the climate change policy, which is okay. (b) coordinate negotiations on climate change, which is okay. (c) formulate a national gender and inter-generational responsive public education, which is okay. These duties go up to (e). What the proposed amendment is doing is adding the powers of the Cabinet Secretary. For example, he will advise the council on the carbon budget for trading based on Kenya’s international obligations, which is a bit of a reversal from what we know of councils. Quite often, councils advise cabinet secretaries. This is in the reverse. Secondly, the Cabinet Secretary will approve international transfers of mitigation outcomes and emission reduction based on advice from the Directorate of Climate Change. The appointment of all the council members was basically an Executive affair. Now, the Cabinet Secretary has all the powers you would expect the council to have. As I said earlier, it would have been wiser to forget about this Bill and create a Directorate under the Ministry of Environment. If we pass this Bill, the council will be rendered powerless because the Cabinet Secretary will be doing everything. Therefore, I propose an amendment to delete Section 7."
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