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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Murungi",
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        "legal_name": "Kathuri Murungi",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I also want to support the Report as submitted by the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources. We considered these amendments from the Senate and as a Member I was present in that meeting. We agreed strongly on some of the clauses that they had amended which were positive to the Bill but some of the clauses, as my colleagues have said, were not positive. We have the example of Clause 10 where the Senate is trying to entrench the Council of Governors to whatever is happening at the national level. If we go that route, I can see the CoG beginning to engage in all aspects of the national Government. We do not want to start that. The institution of NEMA is a very serious parastatal and if you go to Schedule Four of the Constitution, you will see all the devolved functions under NEMA. This Bill has incorporated county environment committees where they have representatives. The county executive in charge of natural resources and environment sits in that county environment committee. So, if there are any issues that they want to 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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