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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do sympathize with hon. Kiilu on this subject matter. There are conflicts taking places along the rivers in his constituency. There are a few groups which have been licensed in the community and also those who are not licensed due to lack of technical knowhow. However, we are using the same Act No.8 of 1999, to put up regulations and guidelines on sand harvesting. My Ministry is not really interested in sand harvesting, but in the very near future, we are going to bring the Mining and Minerals Bill in this House. If it goes through, it will cover sand harvesting as part of mining. Therefore, the law will be very strong. Currently, we have District Environmental Officers in every district. They are now being posted to counties by NEMA. Because of this problem, I dispatched an environmental officer to hon. Kiilu’s district. The District Commissioner there has been chairing meetings, of course, with the environmental officer and something is being done to improve any anomalies brought about by sand harvesting."
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