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    "id": 541273,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Ottichilo",
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        "legal_name": "Wilber Ottichilo Khasilwa",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I want to specifically address this House on two main issues which I think the Senate lost the boat completely. This is the issue to do with preparation and formulation of a national environmental action plan. This is a very long participatory process. It is a process that starts at the grassroots level and goes all the way to the national level. So, it is a process that takes a long time. When the Senate proposes that we should reduce the period for preparing this national action plan from three years to two years, it is a tall order and NEMA cannot achieve that. As a Committee, we looked at the issues and from experience, it has been shown that the minimum period you can use to come up with a national environmental action plan is three years and that is why we have recommended three years. In the previous NEMA Act, it had indicated that every two years, NEMA should prepare and present to this House a status report of the environment. It was not possible for the NEMA to do it because it is a process you cannot undertake in two years. We completely reject the proposal by Senate that the period should be reduced. Equally, for the Senate to indicate that they want the county environmental action plan to be prepared in one year instead of two years again is a tall order for the county government. First of all, the county governments have yet to establish expertise and capacity in environmental monitoring and environmental action plan preparation. So, reducing the period from two years to one year is clear that they will not achieve it. It is pointless for us to recommend to the county executive committee to prepare county environmental action plan in one year when they do not have the capacity and the process itself has to be participatory. So for that reason, we reject the proposals by the Senate and go by the proposal by the Committee. I support the Report of the Committee."
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