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    "id": 642198,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/642198/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "I am fully agreeable to the substantive Motion for obvious reasons. We know that most of our children, women and older persons are the ones who are severely affected by environmental concerns. That is why we have an increase in cancer and respiratory diseases. It is a very good gesture that we put a specific day when Kenyans focus specifically on environmental conservation and cleanliness. However, Saturday that we are picking is a day that many of my constituents, I included, worship. As members of Seventh Day Adventist Church, we do not touch even a broom or lift a finger on Saturdays. We shall be excluding a huge number of Kenyans from this process yet Friday is a working day nationally. Let us put it as a working day and mainstream Friday as a special environmental working day. I am an environmental lawyer and an expert in mainstreaming issues of gender and environment. If we push it to a weekend, we will not be mainstreaming. I am proposing this amendment, so that we move it from Saturday to Friday to take the concerns of the Seventh Day Adventists and mainstream environment properly in Government. With those remarks, I beg to move and ask Hon. Ababu Namwamba to second."
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