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    "id": 642148,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Ottichilo",
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        "id": 131,
        "legal_name": "Wilber Ottichilo Khasilwa",
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    "content": "(d) encourage public participation in the management, protection and conservation of the environment.” This is the crux of my Motion. The State is given a mandate to ensure that the public participates in keeping our environment clean and healthy. Article 69 (1)(g) states that:- “The State shall─ (g) eliminate processes and activities that are likely to endanger the environment.” Lastly, Article 69(2) states:- “Every person has a duty to cooperate with State organs and other persons to protect and conserve the environment and ensure ecologically sustainable development and use of natural resources.” This is where my Motion is anchored. That is why I propose that the State has to declare one day in a month, which every Kenyan should dedicate, to cleaning his or her environment. Why is this important? As I have stated in the Motion, most of our homes, roads, public and private premises, work places, recreation areas and the general environment are littered with plastics, solid and liquid waste. I do not need to belabour the point. If you go anywhere, you will encounter litter and solid waste. It is just a mess. This cannot be allowed to go on. Secondly, currently in this country, we lack a proper plan or mechanism for disposal of solid and liquid waste, particularly in urban areas and local markets. In Nairobi especially Kariobangi and Dandora and markets in any constituency in this country, dumping sites are littered with solid and liquid waste. There is no mechanism on how to clear it. People do not care about solid waste and what it is causing our environment to be inhabitable. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, in this country, the habit of throwing away litter is so rampant and you even find people who have gone to school drinking sodas and throwing away bottles carelessly. If they have any paper in the car, they throw it outside. Our people should learn that our environment is crucial and we cannot continue to make it unhealthy for our survival. The litter and solid thrown is causing so much harm to the environment and most often, the ailments and diseases that people are suffering from today are due to dirty environment. Our environment is littered with solid, liquid waste and filth. That is why we have problems."
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