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    "id": 1480091,
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    "speaker_name": "Ruaraka, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. TJ Kajwang’",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, many Members have complimented, congratulated and expressed a lot of faith in the Cabinet Secretary, and therefore, I would not go there. I will just take it where it belongs. I, however, have to give him worth the distinction that he has in relevance. He has attended to this Question with a lot of relevance. But so that these questions are not shrouded, whilst I have a lot of respect for Members, they have asked a lot of carry-through questions, which may lose the gist of the Question that the Cabinet Secretary came here to respond to. I will very quickly pick only four aspects of it so that the Cabinet Secretary is brought back to the questions which are related to this issue. Regarding the third question on the measures to address the discharge of effluent into rivers and water sources in the country, the Cabinet Secretary has responded that one of the things they have in place is this animal called the Nairobi Rivers Commission. I want to take that. Is the Cabinet Secretary aware of the Gazette Notice, Special Issue No.258 of 2nd December 2022, which created the Nairobi Rivers Commission? He is a ranking Member of this House and I am sure he knows legislation making and so on. The Gazette Notice No.14891 quotes the Climate Change Act and the Environmental Management and Coordination Act. Of course, the issue of the rivers is in the Environmental Management Act. In fact, at that time, if you read the Climate Change Act, there is no function at all given to Nairobi Rivers Commission. That is the case and yet that is the Act upon which this is predicated. But worse, over the page, it is signed by a man, that I am coming to respect, called His Excellency President William Samoei Ruto. Now, under that Act, it is this Cabinet Secretary who has the authority to appoint a commission, and not the President. It is not a delegated function. Secondly, this Gazette Notice must be laid before this House under delegated powers and jurisdiction of this House. Nobody has the power to make law other than this House. I am sure the Cabinet Secretary knows this. So, they created a Commission that is supposed to be driving the policy of cleaning the Nairobi River. I am going to meet him on 15th, but I have asked him to consider disbanding this Commission and creating it a fresh in a legislative process that is viable. However, in this case, he would have to respond to my question that is if this Commission was to drive this process, then it is dead as a dodo, ab initio. Thirdly, I like what the Cabinet Secretary is saying about producer responsibility. In other words, if it is the breweries, Nairobi Sewerage or Athi Sewerage, they have a The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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