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    "id": 836406,
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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": "then went ahead and approved a residential property right next to LDKL without taking the relevant measures to ensure that LDKL meets certain environmental standards and conditions for the sake of the residents of that estate. Therefore, it is worrying because in the last couple of months, we have seen buildings coming down because they are built on riparian land and in the wrong places yet the same NEMA officials approved the construction of those buildings in those areas. It means that NEMA needs a thorough audit, to self-search and change the way they do business as an institution. It means that very many industrial companies in this city and elsewhere are getting away with pollution on a day to day basis. I would like this Committee to go a step further and not just deal with LDKL because there was a petition that was tabled. This Committee needs to conduct a thorough audit of what NEMA is doing with all the other industrial companies and factories, not just in Nairobi, but elsewhere. There is a lot of pollution in this country and it goes on completely undeterred. Nobody bothers to sort it out. That means NEMA officials have turned a blind eye to these things and are doing nothing about it. I hope this Committee has the capacity - and not necessarily on a large scale - to investigate a few companies, especially those that deal with chemicals, just to know what they are doing to ensure that they protect the environment. It is worrying that we would have a situation where there is pollution that is even affecting pregnant mothers. If it is affecting pregnant mothers, it is certainly affecting the children born there and the grown-ups living there. It is an environmental and health hazard to the people living in the area. I hope this Committee will go beyond LDKL and do some thorough work on the major industrial companies in the country. The Committee has come up with very important recommendations. They have given both NEMA and LDKL six months to come up with state-of-the-art technologies on air pollution, recycling of solid waste and other internal self-regulation mechanisms. Six months start from the day we approve this Report. I really hope that the Committee will ensure that they will go back to this factory after six months to confirm that they have implemented the recommendations. If not, then serious action must be taken against the authorities in NEMA if they do not close that factory. We know that we want jobs to be created, but we must save lives."
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