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    "id": 382916,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ong’era",
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        "legal_name": "Janet Ongera",
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    "content": "Thank you Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Motion. We are now faced with greater challenges of environmental management. Global warming has become a reality in the world. This has arisen due to poor management of our environment. We, as human beings, have degraded our environment greatly by polluting it. Therefore, I would like to congratulate Sen. Muthama for bringing this Motion to the House because it looks at how we have treated our environment and how we can make it better. If I were Senator Muthama, I would have further amended it, not just to deal with more rivers but the entire rivers we have in this country including Gucha River in Kisii County. Unless this country harmonizes all the bodies including the busy body that Senator Anang’-Nyong’o has spoken about in Lake Victoria, we will never resolve these issues. There are many issues which are even colliding with one another. I remember a certain case – I wish Sen. Obure was in the House – where we were resolving an issue concerning Gucha River in Kisii County, many bodies turned up. The municipality turned up with an environment body, there was NEMA and another one from the central Government as it was known then. It is now the national Government. All these officials were purporting to resolve issues of pollution especially with regard to dumping in rivers. I think we need to have an integrated approach as to how we manage the environment and how we deal with waste management. If these two could be harmonized and then people could really understand, especially if we do civic education to our people, we will not have these issues of pollution. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are greater issues, not just on polluting the rivers. There is the issue of sand harvesting that continues to make the people, especially in Makueni County, lose their land. That is also another form of environmental degradation. Therefore, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to request Sen. Muthama to consider sending this Motion back to the Committee on Agriculture, Land and Natural Resources, where we could look at it in more detail and, perhaps, come up with a Bill to consolidate all the other Bills that we have before us so that we can have proper interrogation and discussions in this House. I thank you for giving me the opportunity."
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