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    "id": 909982,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/909982/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Maara, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kareke Mbiuki",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Japhet M. Kareke Mbiuki",
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    "content": "Committee was informed that since the scrapping of the EIA fee, the Authority has faced serious financial difficulties and has recorded deficits of more than Kshs200 million per year. The Authority has further been declared technically insolvent by the Office of the Auditor-General over the last year. The Government should reinstate the EIA fee to allow NEMA to collect Appropriation-in-Aid (AiA) and enable the Authority to become financially self-sustaining. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it does not make financial sense when we deprive the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) the necessary fees in form of AiA which can make it self-sustaining instead of relying on the National Treasury for funding. By the time this AiA was zero-rated by the Government, NEMA was able to collect more than Kshs1.2billion annually and they had chances of increasing it to more than Kshs1.8billion in the year 2019. What they get from the National Treasury is less than Kshs700million which cannot finance its operation. The Members of this House and the public sometimes bash NEMA because of its lack of capacity to enforce the various licences which they issue. We all need to appreciate that without adequate funding it becomes a very big challenge to them. Hence, the Committee recommends that the A-in-A should be reinstated to make NEMA financially sound."
}