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    "id": 552748,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ganya",
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        "legal_name": "Francis Chachu Ganya",
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    "content": "Schedule for the county governments are well safeguarded. As the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources has clearly stated, policy formulation and development is clearly a national function. Environmental issues are cross-cutting and are equally shared responsibilities at the two levels of Government. That is why I feel the membership from the Senate provided some very good insights and improved on this Bill. I am a member of the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources; we spent over a whole year ensuring we have a good Bill to overhaul NEMA. Having done that, the membership from this House was able to share with the Senate and the Senators were able to appreciate where we were coming from. They were able to appreciate the kind of provisions we put into the Bill. Also, one good outcome of this mediation process was to ensure that as a country we will have a state-of-the-environment report, which will be done by all the 47 counties. Eventually, that report will feed into and be part and parcel of the report of our nation. This is the good practice all over the world. In many countries, there are state-of-the- environment reports every a few years. This is a very good thing for this country. I support the contribution from the Senate, in particular when they felt that the CoG should also have a role when it comes to the issues of the Complaints Committee. This is a shared function. The environment affects our counties as it affects our nation. Because of this, the CoG, being one major governance structure in our country today, should have a role to play when there are complaints. That is why I strongly support the recommendation by the Senate that when it comes to complaints about the environment, all the sectors of our society, especially the governance structures, should be well represented. This is a step in the right direction. It will ensure that as a nation we have dialogue to find ways and means of resolving issues instead of making it a political problem. That is why we get leaders from both Houses. We should be able to sit together, have a good mediation and come up with a solution which will serve this country for a long time to come. This is a very important Bill. If it is well implemented the country will never be the same again in terms of its environmental governance. I fully support."
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