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    "id": 778683,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Maina",
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        "legal_name": "Ephraim Mwangi Maina",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I wish to support this Petition. The fact that garbage from Nairobi City County is being dumped in Murang’a County may not be the biggest issue. It is high time this country decided and came up with enforceable policies that will protect our mother nature everywhere. The dumping of the refuse in Murang’a County will be an issue because there is no process for ensuring that the garbage itself is processed in a manner that ensures it does not become toxic to Mother Nature. Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. mentioned that as you drive across Mwache Creek from Changamwe in Mombasa County, you see a grisly site of garbage on your left hand side. Even here in Nairobi City County, garbage is just dumped in Dandora. A few vultures go there and pick what they can get. Street children go there too and try to survive. Some women go there and pick a few items and sell. Mr. Speaker, Sir, today, proper garbage management is done to the benefit of humankind. It is used in other counties to generate power and actually segregated in a manner that it becomes acceptable to Mother Nature. It may be interesting to note that there are countries where sewage is treated to such a level that it is pumped back for domestic use. I may not feel very comfortable to use it, but it is processed to a level where it is hygienically palatable. Now, this Committee should tackle the issue of garbage handling in this country. However, I do not know whether we should start with our blatant cutting down of trees or garbage management. We need to wake up because we have a beautiful country that has all the treasures that we were given by Mother Nature. Why could the garbage not be processed here or somewhere in the vicinity and used to generate power? Somebody approached me years back and said that they were ready to do this. They gave a proposal to the then Nairobi City Council to actually process garbage in the manner it is done elsewhere and generate quite a substantial amount of power. That got nowhere. The question is: How and why? There are things that we need to address. Therefore, the Committee should go deeper and not just be concerned with the dumping. This is because if it is not dumped in Kenol in Murang’a County, it will be dumped somewhere in Kajiado or Machakos. That is not a solution; we are just removing poison from here and taking it elsewhere, and it is not the right way. The Committee should come up with a thorough policy guideline and let us have enforceable laws. I keep sympathizing with Hon. ole Kaparo when I see him every time talking passionately and almost breaking into tears. But who takes him seriously? Mr. Speaker, Sir, we need to address those attitudes."
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