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    "id": 926102,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/926102/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
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        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "through the submission by NEMA, nothing seems to have been submitted considering the fact that we are putting up such a facility in a highly fragile ecosystem. There is danger and fear that without an approved or an accepted AIE, we are going to end up damaging the livelihoods of the people surrounding the facility. I urge the Committee to insist that the Department of Defence ensures that we have an approved AIE. A project of this magnitude also requires another study, namely, the social impact assessment. The emphasis is on the willingness to pay and accept. Those are technical terms expected to be undertaken in such analysis. Looking through this Report, there is no reference to such kind of study. We are going to end up with a project which, however well-intended and important it is will refranchise and affect the people and the ecosystem around there tremendously. It is probably not too late. It is possible that the Committee can sit down with the relevant staff in the Ministry of Defence to review this matter in view of the comments the Members have made. I come from the area where we are told never to question anything from the Defence. I would approve and support the Report, but with reservations. I hope the reservations we have raised are going to be considered. We hope the Ministry of Defence is not going to use its might and thorax to bulldoze the communities around there and bid them into submission to accept the project the way it is without proper safeguards having been put in place. With those few remarks, I support but with my stated reservations. Thank you."
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