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    "id": 196457,
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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Gesami",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Public Health and Sanitation",
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        "legal_name": "James Ondicho Gesami",
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, my name is Dr. James Gesami, MP, West Mugirango. I stand to support this Motion. The wording is very well thought about. I want to thank hon. C. Kilonzo for introducing this Motion. The envisaged Bill seeks to regulate production, distribution, consumption, recycling and disposal of plastic materials. It will be a very good Bill. I know we have a very good Act of Parliament, the Public Health Act, which has been there for a very long time. This Act was supposed to take care of all the nuisance in terms of these plastic materials, cigarette bits and many other things. The problem with the Public Health Act is actually that its implementation is fairly difficult. I wonder whether when the Plastic Control Bill becomes an Act, we shall have the capacity to implement it. Basically, the Public Health Act has not been very influential in terms of regulating this menace due to lack of capacity to implement it. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, plastic materials as everybody has said, are thrown all over. I want to say that in the last ten years, we have had a big upsurge of malaria in this country because of stagnant water which plastic materials hold. Because of that, there is increased breeding of mosquitoes. As you know because of the high number of mosquitoes there is then efficient kind of transmission of malaria. In the last ten years, we have had high land malaria which is a big burden of disease in this country every after ten to three years. I believe that if this Plastic Control Bill becomes an Act, malaria cases will decrease significantly. I, therefore, want to support this Motion fully. As has been said here, this is something that runs through different Ministries. Sometimes, it becomes very difficult for different Ministries to co-ordinate and it becomes difficult to implement some of these Acts of Parliament. We realise that there is also high morbidity of livestock caused by these plastic materials. My plea is that we really have to be very careful when discussing this Bill when it comes to the House. We need to be very careful in terms of regulating the plastic industry. We also know that our rural folks depend on these cheap materials to carry food and other things. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I really need to make my input on the issue of the burden of disease of malaria. I will fully support this Bill when it will come to the House. With those few remarks, I beg to support. Thank you."
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