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    "id": 503402,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyamweya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Manson Oyongo Nyamweya",
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    "content": "You know the Cabinet Secretary in Mining and the Cabinet Secretary in Agriculture will be fighting when we pass this Bill, because one will make a decision that will pollute the environment and the other one will make a decision that they would do mining. What will this add up to? We must look at the implementation and practicability of the Bill in terms of effectiveness. So, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the entire Bill has problems. I do not know what needs to be done, or whether it is too late. I think this Bill should be withdrawn. If you try to look at the amendments required to this Bill, they are massive and will cause confusion in this House at the time of the Committee Stage and when it comes back from Senate. So, when I look at it, I wonder exactly what the drafters of this Bill were doing and what they wanted to achieve. Here they say the Cabinet Secretary shall, on the recommendation of the Authority, recommend minimum standard for emission of noise. It, therefore, goes to the Cabinet Secretary to do it. Then why do you form this body? Why do you not let the civil servants do this job rather than say we are forming a body yet you do not give it power? This Bill is just going to cause unnecessary confusion, considering that we have a new Constitution and county governments. Those powers must be given to those institutions that are going to perform the function. As we move on, we will have amendments to this Bill, so that we can have what is right and what can be enforceable by all of us. But more important, this organisation needs funding and highly trained manpower. It is not a place where you are going to get The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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