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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Monda",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Onsare Monda",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I request for your indulgence to inform the House that by direction of the Chair, as chairman of the health committee, we were able to visit the lake and sewerage treatment plant in Naivasha on Monday the 30th in the company of the National Quality Control Laboratory technicians, who took samples. The samples have already been tested and the results are worrying. In summary, by your direction, we were able to come up with a result that confirmed that the company is unable to handle waste water from the town. The company treats sewer only up to 25 per cent. In scientific terms, the UN and World Health Organization (WHO) requires that before sewer water is discharged into a lake, it should be treated to a level of 10 parts per million. In the case of Naivasha, the treatment is up to 300 parts per million. Those are results from the laboratory. This now gives us full evidence that the lake is actually being polluted. I do not want to engage in debate because I know it is Question Time; it is not debate time. Observations that are worrying indicate that Naivasha Water and Sewerage Company does discharge raw sewage into the lake. What is of concern are the contents of what is discharged. The contents of the waste water that goes into the lake from the sewerage are suspended solids, bio-degradable organics, biogenic organisms, refractory organics and dissolved inorganic constituents. What is worse is priority pollutants and heavy metals that are highly toxic. They are carcinogenic, meaning that they cause cancer; they are also mutagenic. This is quite worrying. We are exposing the population of this country, who depend on fish and those of us who enjoy fish, to danger. We do fishing in this lake. What is the Ministry of Environment and Minerals doing to ensure that the fresh water lake is fresh, and that those who depend on fishing for their livelihood continue doing the business of fishing in a fresh water lake, as it was before?"
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