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    "id": 503285,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "committee. That is why I said earlier that one of the objects of this Bill is to take into account the existence of the devolved system of Government. Therefore, that anticipates the creation of new committees after the disbandment of the former committees. The functions of the county environment committees shall be, among others to ensure the proper management of the environment for respective counties. This Bill also proposes to amend Section 39 of the current principal Act. By dissolving the current public complaints committee and transferring all those functions to a department within the Ministry, it ensures the same thing; the pragmatic use of public resources. In addition, the Bill proposes the disbandment of the National Environment Action Plan Committee. Therefore, this Bill harmonizes or rationalizes those too many bodies from the village to the national level dealing with environmental issues. We are talking of the district and provincial environment committees. We are taking over the National Environment Action Plan and functions of the committee are being transferred to the Authority. The new sub-section 37 as proposed under Clause 26 of the Bill mandates the Authority to formulate and originate the National Environment Action Plan within three years of commencement of this Act and to ensure public participation, when the exercise is being undertaken. That must be done with public participation as envisaged in the Constitution. Similarly, under Clause 28 the Bill introduces a new sub-clause 40 to the principal Act which requires every county environment committee to also prepare the County Environment Action Plan. Therefore, each county will have its own action plan. If you have a forest, you must plan for that forest. If you come from the desert, like me; the only forest I have is Tana River and I must find an action plan. If you are from hon. Ng’ongo’s place – who is not here – you must look for action plan. Either it is the fish or water. Hon. Speaker, Clause 30 of the Bill introduces new sub-section 41A and 41B, which sets out the purposes and the functions; the mission of the national and county environment plans. This tells you that you will not sit somewhere and plan for a forest which is not in your county. If you have no forest, you have no forest. The only choice that you have is to plant a new one. This is not how we run our political parties. We use political parties to ascend to power. This law is saying you must plan. Clause 41A and B, provide that you must have a purpose, a function, a vision and a mission of your national and county environmental plans."
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