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    "id": 382944,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Muthama",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Nduya Muthama",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, allow me to thank my colleagues for the great contribution they have made to this Motion and also the seriousness they have shown in the Motion. Without talking a lot, it has come out very clearly that we are dealing with natural resources. For us to get what we want there is only one way forward. This is to say to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and NEMA, to move fast and stop the polluters of our great rivers. It would not cost them anything to do that. It is just implementing the law which is in place. The law is there and what the department and NEMA should do is to stop those polluters immediately and divert whatever they are draining into our rivers to a different place. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are expecting the long rains in October, and if there will be no pollution between now and October, the rivers will be cleaned naturally and at the end of the day, we will have water. Senators have made several suggestions, and one of them was to do with the Committee on Agriculture, Land and Natural Resources. I totally agree with what Sen. Ong’era said, and I would go further and say that the money that is available to this Committee, like what Sen. Murkomen has said, we should not spend the money to go to Geneva to see how people are drinking water on the streets. That money should be used by this Committee to visit most of these rivers and assess the situation so that they can make their own recommendations that will supplement the current Motion. Sen. Mugo brought up a very important point of availing civic education to those who are living close to the rivers. But even if we gave them the civic education, they are not the polluters. I agree with what Sen. Mugo said but we need to go further and compel the department to deal with this issue. There is no way that the department can escape from its own responsibility of maintaining the water resources. One Senator referred to spring waters. We know that there is no spring water in this country that is clean and can provide clean water. God gave this country the flowing springs all the way from Mt. Kenya to the other end of the country. The springs are there and they should be maintained in order for us to get clean water. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if airlines are paying for polluting the air globally, they should also do it here. That will enable us to give our people clean water and protect them from diseases. I beg to move."
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