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    "id": 848393,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. We will give them the areas that we have not touched on sufficiently. Let me just talk about the laxity of agencies who came to us more than a month after this had happened. They were shocked as if they did not know a dam had collapsed in Solai. The attitude by the National Construction Authority (NCA) officials must end. I know Sen. Kasanga will talk about the NCA. Whenever we asked them a question, they would say that they were not in operation at that time. Are they the NCA or the “National Ongoing Construction Authority”? In fact, their biggest budgetary item is paint because all they do is mark Xs, but do nothing about it. The laxity by those Government officials must be questioned. Action must be taken on the habit of Government officials going round handing out cartels’ money. When the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government, Dr. Matiang’i, my good friend who has been known to be diligent and conscientious, came here, he said that he is not aware that money was being dished out yet there were newspaper reports about his officers. That leaves a lot to be desired. The rest of the recommendations in the Report are there for us to see. However, Members of this House should rise to the occasion and support this Report, so that we do our part in making sure impunity ends in Kenya so that we save lives in this country. Even as the restoration of the chief is being proposed, he cannot continue serving there. Finally, Nakuru County Executive, led by the Governor, appeared before us and had no clue what their responsibility was. In the documents presented to us from the Governor, he named only national agencies forgetting that Part 2 of the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution of Kenya talks about county responsibilities, which include enforcement of environmental issues with respect to dams. He forgot that the Environmental Management and Co-ordination Act, (EMCA) provides that each county must set up an Environmental Management Coordination Committee (EMCC) but Nakuru County did not have one. That was neglect of duty. They did not have a clue about what their role is. We have recommended that within the next six months, all governors must set up structures so that they stop shirking of responsibilities that are theirs claiming that they The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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