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    "id": 196441,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Lankas",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Lankas ole Nkoidila",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also stand to support this Motion. It is a very important Motion which is long overdue as he rightly put it. Plastic waste is an eyesore in this country. In fact, if you take a walk in our countryside, you will realise that urban centres and the land neighbouring them have actually been claimed by these plastics. A very good example is Mai Mahiu. If you go to Mai Mahiu, you might not even want to sit there because the area has generally been claimed by plastics. Both animal and human life is threatened. Generally, the environment is threatened. So, I think this is a very important Motion. It cuts across all Ministries and not only the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources. If you look at the issue of plastic waste closely, it cuts across the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitisation and the Ministry of Livestock Development because plastic waste has claimed a lot of animal lives. Therefore, I believe that it is high time control on the handling of these plastics was put in place. I am talking about legal control and other measures. We have the National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) in place, but it is silent on the control and handling of plastic waste. We also have EMCA, but it is very silent on this matter. I stand to support this Motion because I believe it is high time we handled plastics in the right way. We need to introduce legal measures."
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