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    "id": 649551,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) F.I. Ali",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Fatuma Ibrahim Ali",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. First and foremost, I congratulate Hon. Ottichilo for bringing this timely Motion. It is necessary. Kenya is littered with a lot of garbage and waste. One time I was watching television and I saw the environment complaining. It says that it provides shade, water, beauty and fresh air but we are destroying it. That is a very powerful complaint of the environment. A clean environment supports the life of human beings and plants. Kenya needs an institutional framework which is active and proactive in involving Kenyans to be part of promoting a clean environment. Speakers have said that Kenyans have not created a culture to contribute to a clean environment. If you walk in town and villages, you will see plastic papers hanging from trees, houses and settlements. The biggest challenge for this country is to enforce laws for a clean environment. Article 42 of our Constitution is very clear that a clean environment is an obligation of the State. This is not happening. Many Kenyans are suffering from diseases caused by effluents from industries. They are not controlled. They are released to our rivers and to our environment. They are hazardous to our health. There are many sites which are no go zones like dumpsites which have hazardous waste. Even my county, which is an arid area with very limited capacity to regenerate, our environment and many of our trees are littered with plastic papers. Garbage is thrown everywhere with no particular designated location. The public is not sanctioning some of the things that are happening. The public think that the role of promoting a clean environment is a State function, which is a misunderstanding and lack of appreciation of the citizens’ role in contributing to a clean environment. The other challenge this country has is lack of a culture of appreciating that it is our responsibility to contribute to a clean environment. Everybody is littering everywhere. The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), which is supposed to protect and assess damages to the environment, is not taking a proactive role. The other challenge is weakness in or absence of enforcement of laws to give responsibility to citizens to be part of promoting a clean environment. Garbage is a resource which should be managed and recycled to produce biogas, The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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