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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I will go straight to Clause 10 which provides for the qualifications of the judge. I want to persuade the Minister to squeeze somebody like my brother Dr. Otichilo, a well-known Environmental Scientist, who is qualified in environmental matters and land issues, so that he also qualifies as a judge from the definition of this Bill. For example, people imagine that irrigation is just pouring water and then crops grow, but irrigation is a very complicated science. It involves such delicate issues like soil temperature, erosion, the volume of water and the quality of the soil. Prof. Olweny, who is an Agriculturist, understands what I am talking about. This includes the microbes. I want to emphasize the need to have special prosecutors or people to assist the court to understand these intricacies. I had a personal experience recently when I was dealing with the issue of the Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) which indicates that even the most decorated gentlemen sometimes do not understand the basics of some of these complicated new sciences. For us to get good judgments or decisions from these courts, it is important that we have people who have a bias in environmental science. For instance, we will be looking forward to this court making the first landmark decision to clean up, like they did in California, the environment in respect of the GMOs, so that those multi-nationals that have introduced GMOs in this country can be penalized by doing risk management where it occurs. With those remarks, I support this Bill wholeheartedly. I only miss the fact that it should also have read land in part, so that matters to do with agriculture and the related pollution and pollutants are captured in this court."
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