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    "id": 504835,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/504835/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nakara",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2926,
        "legal_name": "John Lodepe Nakara",
        "slug": "john-lodepe-nakara"
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    "content": "For instance, last week Uasin Gishu County Government came up with a law which says that if you spit on a street, you will be arrested and pay a fine of Ksh10,000. That will at least curb this indiscipline in relation to the environment. We need to encourage communities to participate in tree planting by motivating them through a programme under which we pay some little money to whoever plants a tree. You may pay such a person Kshs.300 a month. That will motivate very many people to plant trees on their home compounds. If we come up with such a programme, we shall have many trees all over the country. We need to think about that, especially in Turkana. You can have the community planting trees by telling them to do so and paying them something little at the end of the month; many of them will plant trees on their home compounds. That would increase the forest cover. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we need to look at the fee being charged by NEMA. There was a project in Turkana where we needed to establish a secondary school. The fee NEMA told the community to pay was beyond what they had. We need to control that because when NEMA charges the community a lot of money--- A community may have presented a proposal to the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) to undertake a project, and it becomes burdensome. We need to discourage this practice. Another issue is on the NEMA assessment reports. Sometimes these reports are misleading and corrupt. You find a NEMA officer has been sent to do an assessment in a particular area and he produces a report, but when you go back to the area, you find that they have given wrong information. Some mining companies do a lot of destruction to the environment. After they leave, the areas worked on remain with holes. When the rains come, some children get accident because of the holes. We need to have a penalty for such companies; before they leave, they must make sure that they have levelled the place they have worked on. In case anything happens in that area, that company must be followed and penalised for leaving behind holes. With those few remarks, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support. Thank you."
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