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    "id": 28230,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/28230/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Karua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari Karua",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to support this Bill and say that the current tribunal is a disappointment. The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) in terms of enforcing the Act is a total disappointment. This court is, therefore, very welcome. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we should amend Article 16 and make appeals from this court to go from the Court of Appeal to the highest court. Environment is everything and we can sentence ourselves to death through mishandling it. Therefore, we should access the highest court. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other point is that the environmental impact assessment by NEMA has become an enrichment process. The fees charged are unreasonably high. Unless they put their act together, now we have a court through which we shall quash some of these practices. We at last have an opportunity to challenge the decisions of both NEMA and the tribunal. I am suggesting that after this, we amend the environmental act, so that we create offences for officers of Government who cause deliberate destruction of the environment, to our detriment. We should also create offences for individuals who do the same, so that we deter people from wasting our environment. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would also like to say that for too long, we have polluted our water bodies, destroyed our forests and environment. All these things need to be attended to by this court. I suggest that we strengthen the Bill where we can, especially the section on appeals and also move to amend the environment act. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support the Bill."
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