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    "id": 836346,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/836346/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Maara, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kareke Mbiuki",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 79,
        "legal_name": "Japhet M. Kareke Mbiuki",
        "slug": "japhet-kareke-mbiuki"
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    "content": "London Distillers Limited had an agreement of sewer connection with the Export Processing Zones Authority (EPZA). However, a letter dated 14th January 2015 indicated the polluting nature of the company. The introductory paragraph of the letter states: “… after rigorous analytical and quality assessment of your pre-treated effluent, it is a fact that you are unable to achieve the values of COD and BOD set at 1000 mg/l and 500 mg/l respectively as stipulated in the Environmental Management and Coordination (Water Quality) Regulations, 2006 of Legal Notice No.120”. The letter went on to give conditions for connection to the EPZA sewer line which included higher charges for its effluent that did not meet set standards. The company accepted the set conditions. The Committee also observed that the former Mavoko County Council allowed change of user for the parcel of land owned by EPL from industrial to residential. Such change could have led to the environmental pollution conflict between the two parties. There was need for NEMA to expand the monitoring of the industrial pollution issues in Athi River to other industries in the area to ensure protection of the environment and residents of the larger Athi River area and across the country in general. The Fourth Schedule of the Constitution assigns the National Government the function of developing general principles of land planning, capacity building and technical assistance to the counties. The counties have been assigned the function of county planning and development which may include; formulating a county policy on physical planning, approving a county policy on physical planning, approving county development plans, monitoring and overseeing the planning function. Therefore, the Committee observed that there was need for counties to create a master plan for land use in the area to avoid the mixed user of land which, in the first place, generated the environmental pollution conflict. The Committee also observed that Edermann Property Limited was established in 2003 and started its development activities in Athi River in 2015, by which time London Distillers (Kenya) Limited was already established within the vicinity. Therefore, Edermann Property Limited engaged in its property development business in the area fully aware of its neighborhood. Finally, the Committee observed that despite the complaints by the residents of Great Wall Gardens Estate regarding the pollution emanating from LDKL, the property development company, Edermann Property Limited was engaged in an ambitious expansion of its housing estate in the same location. Consequently, the Committee made the following recommendations: The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) should: 1. Ensure that London Distillers (Kenya) Limited, within six months from the date of adoption of this Report, invests in state-of-art technologies that contain air pollution mitigation mechanisms, recycles solid waste and escalates and/or institutes stringent internal self-regulation. Such technologies can include, but not limited to physical/chemical methods and biological treatment methods of odour control."
}