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    "id": 147264,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/147264/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kajembe",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Environment and Mineral Resources",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ramadhan Seif Kajembe",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am not aware that luxury hotels at the coast still discharge raw sewage into the Indian Ocean. However, I confirm that the luxury hotels at the coast discharge their raw sewage into septic tanks and effluent treatment plants from which it is discharged into the nearest water body in accordance with Environment Management and Co-ordination Water Quality Regulations of 2006. (b) My Ministry, through the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), has already initiated implementation of various regulations in order to safeguard Indian Ocean and all inland waters. These include:- (i) The Environmental Impact Assessment and Audit Regulations of 2003. (ii) The Environmental Management and Co-ordination Waste (iii) Management Regulations of 2006. (iv) The Environmental Management and Co-ordination Water Quality Regulations of 2006. All the hotels are obliged to obtain an effluent discharge license accompanied by effluent analytical report for their wastewater discharge into the environment. (c) NEMA has prosecuted 56 cases countrywide. Out of these, two prosecutions are on hotels. All cases are still pending before courts."
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