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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Barua",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1529,
        "legal_name": "Ejidius Njogu Barua",
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    "content": "first of all commend the team that established a middle ground and came up with acceptable decisions. Clause 10, which was asking the CoG to nominate a representative to replace the one who was supposed to be appointed by the AG, was one of the biggest issues that the team had to address. This was because what the Senate had proposed implied that the advice given by the AG can be given, at the same level, by the CoG. So, I am happy that this has been agreed upon and the AG remains with an opportunity to appoint a representative to the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) Board. Policy making, as the previous speakers have said, is a function of the national Government. If the CoG seriously feels that they need to be part and parcel of decision- making at national institutions, the time has come for them to also accept that representatives of the national Government have an active role to play in the management and running of the county governments. As it is now, there is a movement by the CoG, which I think this House must note, in which they want to entrench themselves in all national institutions. This must be monitored and resisted objectively. If they want to join these institutions, let them also open up the county governments. If they open up the running of the county governments for the input of the Members of this honourable House, the county governments will run in a more efficient manner. The other issue is on the appointee of the civil society to the Public Complaints Committee (PCC). I support the feelings of Hon. Chris Wamalwa that in future it will be necessary for us to bring an amendment to this House, so that the civil society can be represented. Civil society organisations in this country are getting a lot of donor funding for environmental programmes. They are implementing very many environmental programmes in this country. What is important is not to remove the civil society organisations from the management of institutions. What is important is for us, as a country and Government, to ensure that there is co-ordination and improved functioning of the NGO Co-ordination Board and the National Council of NGOs, so that in future they may be more efficient in appointing people to represent the common man and woman in various institutions. Finally on the issue of reporting, I am happy this was agreed upon as a committee of this House had proposed. It was a misunderstanding in the process. I would like to inform this House that the reason why there is a difference of one year between the county governments and the national Government is because the national Government’s report is going to be a collation of the reports from the 47 counties in this country. So, the one year difference will enable NEMA and the Ministry to put together reports from various counties and come up with a national environmental report and action plans. I support."
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