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"content": "actually very important. It has come at the right time and actually, the necessary stakeholders need to take immediate action. At the same time, there is a lot of pollution, not only of the air, we also have land and water pollution. The people have just decided to be careless, and they have decided to form dumping sites everywhere and anywhere. They think that it is right for them to do this. That is why I may say that it is actually our responsibility; one, as Kenyans; and, two, as even leaders, to take up the initiative by, maybe, trying to find a way of creating awareness to our people on why they need to keep the environment clean and tidy. It is us, as Kenyans, to decide to use commonsense and to be self-driven to ensure that our environment is clean. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to point out the example of Rwanda. Starting with the President and their leaders, including the citizens, every month from morning to midday, everyone is outside cleaning their villages, towns and everywhere. This has really created a good culture; that everyone is responsible. We actually visited the country; we went to Kigali and other places and we were really mesmerized by the way the place is clean. In their supermarkets, they do not use plastic polyethylene bags. That is something that we, as a country, need to emulate. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when I travel home, I pass through Uasin Gishu County, and I find Eldoret Town to be very crowded with many vehicles, hawkers and all that. But the County Government of Uasin Gishu has tried to make sure that the town is clean by ensuring that everybody and everything is put at the right place. At the same time, I may talk proudly about Kakamega County Government, because when the county governments came into place, the Governor, with his executive committee, came up with an initiative to ensure that they keep the environment clean. They even involve the youth groups to, once every month, move into town, clean it and make it enjoyable for other visitors to visit. At the same time, they have tried to install dust bins so that instead of you throwing litter on the ground, you dump it at the right place. I would like to point out an experience now that I was a girl guide in school. We used to go and clean the towns and even install the bins but in the recent past, that culture has been dying slowly and we do not see our children being taught to keep their environment clean. That is why I am saying that it is our responsibility, as Kenyan leaders, to make sure that when these children grow up, they take it up upon themselves to clean the environment. This will really help. Lack of proper environmental waste management regulations will put our country in a big mess. It is important that the national Government acts on it immediately. I support."
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