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    "id": 503415,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/503415/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kabondo wa Kabando",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 31,
        "legal_name": "Kabando wa Kabando",
        "slug": "kabando-kabando"
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    "content": "When you take a certain area in Nairobi, sub-urban like Limuru, where my friend, hon. Kiragu, comes from and the connection with the City and the urbanisation of the constituencies around here, you will find that the methodology of construction in those areas is almost similar; low, high and middle classes construction, residential, hotels and so forth. In an area of 100 acres, where there is subdivision of the land, to say a quarter or an eighth of an acre, each individual is required to seek the physical planning approval, the public health approval, county approvals, NEMA approvals and the National Construction Authority approvals, it just too much. We should now start thinking about harmonisation. Perhaps, time has come when the Mining Act, this Act that we are amending and all the other laws relating to the environment were taken to a national conference under the auspices of, for instance, the Wangari Maathai Institute of Environmental Studies to reduce bureaucracy, so that it excites some academic or scholarly reviews and participation. This is the same Government at the national level. When you have the Cabinet Secretary for Mining and the Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Water and Natural Resource creating a department to deal with the matter that is almost coming to the same purview, it needs review. Even in certain areas, we should have environment impact assessment done generally in a certain zone, so that we can zone assessments instead of segmenting them to individuals. This can reduce the cost of doing business and improve the livelihood of our people. In areas like housing, you should not have young people going to five or six institutions seeking the same approvals and the next day, you have another 100 people from the same area. A zonal segmented wide area impact assessment would help us grow harmoniously."
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