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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Cecily Mbarire",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let me begin by, first, congratulating the Chairman of the Committee and his entire membership for a job well done. They took this matter seriously because matters of environment are no longer small matters that need to be taken lightly. They are matters that affect us daily. For a long time, we have ignored environmental pollution and we are now facing the wrath of it. Therefore, I am happy that this Committee has taken up this matter. I am truly surprised because if you look at the observations of the Committee, Observation No.7 states that the Director-General for NEMA produced before the Committee environmental audit reports largely commissioned by LDKL itself to prove compliance of the LDKL with environmental standards. I want to take it up from where the Member for Bunyala left. One is left wondering whether NEMA is an independent Government institution that is meant to carry out its own independent environmental audit. How can they depend on audits commissioned by the very institution they are supposed to audit? I hope the Committee made it clear. They should have thrown out that report because it was totally a conflict of interest if, indeed, NEMA believed in it without undertaking their own independent audit. That brings me to a concern I have. It is a fact that NEMA approved the building of a residential facility or property next to LDKL in the first place without even looking at the environmental concerns. This is a company that we are told has been in business since 1986 - for over 30 years. I am very sure this concern did not just happen after this residential property was built. It must have been a concern even before except that NEMA did not take it seriously. They The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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