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    "id": 504804,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/504804/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Murungi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kathuri Murungi",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, NEMA also needs some prosecutorial powers so that those people who are contravening the Act can also be prosecuted through NEMA. The professional body for the experts who do strategic environmental impact assessments and environmental audits, needs to be anchored in this Bill. This way, we can avoid rogue consultants who usually go to universities for two or three weeks and they are given certificates to practise as environmental experts. These are the people who are making NEMA to lose its credibility. There are other professionals who are trained in this area from the first degree, second degree or third degree.When NEMA is blamed for having quacks, even these people with PhD also get the blame. Therefore, this professional body will be able to regulate the experts to see how they can regulate fees charged to the developers because at the moment, there are no regulations on how this can be charged. Some people can charge up to the tune of millions and other quacks can charge even Kshs.20,000. These are the people who do “cut and paste” when they are doing environmental impact assessment reports which do not stand the test of time. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is the national environment action plan which this country should have. What we need to do in this Bill is to set the period when we need to have the national environment action plan so that this can give us the guideline as a country on how we are moving. Another important document is the state of environment of this country. We need to have a two or three year plan so that we can get to know the state of the environment, which is also a document that needs to be tabled in this House. Members need to know what is happening in the country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, my colleagues have mentioned that the county environment committees need to be empowered. It is also important to have, as hon. Wamalwa has stated, sub-county environment committees. This can be decided at the county level so that sound environmental planning can be done at a lower level, which is also the spirit of our new Constitution. 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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