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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Abdalla",
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        "legal_name": "Amina Ali Abdalla",
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    "content": "31 Wednesday 2nd December, 2015(A) I want to talk about the communities that conserve the water towers; the Mau and the Cherangany. When we design programmes we design programmes that only look at the people downstream and not the people who conserve the water because the notion of valuing natural resources in our budgeting processes has not been inculcated in us. On the question of rehabilitation and restoration of degraded areas, we all know that we are giving a lot of our resources to security, but the interlinkage between insecurity and environmental degradation needs this country to shift our focus from not only just dealing with the symptoms but dealing with the cause. We are now receiving a lot of rains but the money for digging dams has not been provided on time for us to capture the massive amount of water that has been showered upon us by the Almighty. So, on the issue of rehabilitation of degraded forest areas, this is the time we should be doing tree planting in a massive way, but we are not sensitive to the climatic influences required during rehabilitation. The other challenge this policy addresses is urbanisation, waste management and pollution. As I have said before, waste management is a devolved function. However, without a strengthened policy and legislative framework, the county governments are not performing their waste management roles as well as they should. We have devolved waste management but we have not given the county governments the tools to address the same and as we speak no county in this country has a legally registered waste management place. My colleagues and the whole world is in Paris dealing with the climate change conference because climate change, energy, security and disaster management is a serious problem in this country that this policy seeks to address. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have just concluded debate on the Sessional Paper that deals with the question of public participation, environmental education and awareness. Lack of this contributes to reduced success in the management of environment. There is also the question of data information and distribution where we have serious institutions such as the Information and Remote Sensing Institute. That institution has serious equipment including aeroplanes and yet all counties are spending millions of shillings asking for data to be provided by the private sector. As we speak about data and information being some of the challenges in the sector, we have not fully utilised the resources that we already have. This policy is going to direct it in the right direction. As a country, we have a serious problem of poverty. We know that it is directly related to the state of the environment and natural resources that form the basis of the livelihoods of a majority of our populace. Finally, another challenge that is facing our people is the issue of chemical management. In today’s media, the people of Marsabit were noting with a lot of concern the increase of cancer cases. It has been shown that there is some chemical pollution in their water system. That is a challenge nationally, but more specifically in areas where some extractive activities have resulted in chemicals being included. The goals and objectives of this Sessional Paper include ensuring that we have a better quality of life for present and future generations through sustainable management. We have several objectives. For the benefits of Hon. Members, I would like to share the guiding principles of this policy because it is---"
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