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    "id": 541408,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/541408/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Abdalla",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 382,
        "legal_name": "Amina Ali Abdalla",
        "slug": "amina-abdalla"
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    "content": "The Senate amendment to Clause 23 is basically on reducing time in which the national Government should spend in developing National Environmental Action Plan and consequently, the time it should take in producing a report on the Plan. We are rejecting this reduction because of experience. Even the current law requires that the national Government produces a state of the environment report annually. This has been shown to be unrealistic. It is too much to collate information from all over Kenya and report on how the environment is performing within one year. To do that plan, we had suggested and it will be a consequential amendment in Clause 25, that we allow a county government to do a five-year plan. They should spend three years to do the plan which will be eligible for implementation for five years and after this first plan, it builds to the national one which needs to be produced in six years. When they reduce it, they do not take into consideration the capacity in the national Government, the issues that are being reported on being issues that take more than the time that they are requesting. Therefore, we are rejecting this amendment based on experience. We have Members in my Committee who have worked in NEMA and civil society. I am one of the people who were in the beginning asking NEMA to produce an annual statement on the state of the environment. We realized it was impossible. Even the NGO world knows it is impossible. Therefore, for us to come and reduce this time, it is just giving somebody an output that we know is hard to achieve. Therefore, we have to move away from giving deadlines and timelines that are unrealistic. The Senate needs to be advised that this is unrealistic."
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