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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kihika",
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        "legal_name": "Susan Wakarura Kihika",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I thank you for this opportunity that you have given me to reply. I want to take the opportunity to really thank my colleagues for the contributions that they have made towards this Motion. When I hear you speak, I get it now that it is an issue that definitely affects every county. As the population is really growing across the counties, we have a big issue with the waste management. I was happy to hear the other suggestions that my colleagues have pointed out that will be helpful when the national Government comes up with the regulations for this waste management, should the Motion pass. I am hoping that they will go ahead and do that since it is a health issue and it seems to be a crisis across the board. I will give you a personal example. When I first decided to bring the Motion which was actually a few weeks before we went on recess, I did not have much knowledge on what I was to speak on. In the last two weeks or so, as most of you know, I have been dealing with a very terrible tragic accident of a helicopter crash into Lake Nakuru. As I woke up every day and waited by the lake for, initially the rescue and then later the recovery, I was shocked to learn that about 60 per cent of the sewage in Nakuru County actually goes into the lake. I never knew that, that was really what we are looking at. Through research and a lot of homework, I am really surprised at how much we are killing or destroying our environment. I have also learnt in the course of all these that even, for example, in Lake Naivasha which is also in Nakuru County, we have a lot of the flower farmers putting a lot of very dangerous waste into the lake and this is a lake that has fresh water. We have fishermen and a lot of fish and basically life is going on there. When you have a lot of very bio-hazardous and other very bad waste going in there with no regulations and without much penalty as my colleague here, Sen. (Prof.) Kamar, has pointed out, it is something that we really need to look into so that those who violate these regulations or laws can be held to account. We should make the penalties so high so that a company will not dispose of its waste into the lake. The county government should then be held accountable and should come up with a sewage system or a way to dispose of sewage other than putting or channeling it into the lakes. Those are some of the things that have come up and I believe that together with your support, colleagues, we can really lead our counties into having very friendly environments."
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