{"id":686349,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/686349/?format=json","text_counter":95,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. (Dr.) Ottichilo","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":131,"legal_name":"Wilber Ottichilo Khasilwa","slug":"wilber-ottichilo"},"content":"Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to appreciate the comments that have been made by Members of this House on this Bill. But, as the Whip of the Majority Party has indicated, this is a mediated version of the Bill. We have sat, discussed and agreed. As Hon. Metito has indicated, it is best for us to go ahead and approve this Bill. Any amendments that are required can be done within six months. I want to bring to the attention of this House that they have to look at all the other Bills. That is because this clause that is being contested is standard. If you check in all the Bills we have passed in this House, this is exactly what we have been passing. Therefore, the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources did not invent any new words. We simply picked it from other Bills as it has been. If it is felt by this House that those clauses are punitive, particularly when it comes to imprisonment or any other written law, it will call upon this House to repeal or remove such clauses in many other Bills. Personally, I agree with their concern. I just want to plead that we pass this Bill so that we do not fail. If we fail, the consequences are dire. Thank you."}