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    "id": 541329,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Abdalla",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amina Ali Abdalla",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I wanted to clarify to hon. Dalmas that we considered the view of just retaining the Attorney-General and having a representative of the Council of Governors. The reason as to why we thought it would not be the right thing to do is that, under environment, the role of policy development is a national Government function while implementation of the policies is a devolved function. Based on that, in this Bill, we have re-created environmental committees that are similar to the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) in every county, to which the NEMA officer in the county is secretary. Why would you deny a chance to people with the expertise that would give a national view in policy development in very technical matters to have a representation? Our more fundamental fear is that policy development in the environment is a national Government function. If we bring on board the Council of Governors in this one, next time we will want to have the representation of the Council of Governors in every parastatal carrying out national Government functions. We will be opening a Pandora’s Box. We will then say that we need representation of the Council of Governors in the Cabinet. We should do such thing based on a real need. The networking being suggested could be dealt with in a different framework, and not through this formal framework of the Board of NEMA. This is not a caucus. That is where we differed. We had even thought of reducing the number of persons to be nominated by the Cabinet Secretary and reserve a slot for the Council of Governors. Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman."
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