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    "id": 926277,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kajiado South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Katoo ole Metito",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Janet Marania Teyiaa",
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    "content": "There is also the issue of the National Environment Management Act (NEMA) certificate for environmental impact assessment. When officers from NEMA appeared before the Committee around October last year, they had not done the environmental impact assessment. We told them we could not continue until they did it. So, they asked for more time and they did it in February this year and the Report was tabled in April. What appears in the Report as the environmental impact assessment not having been done is a position that was captured in our progress report as at the end of last year. It was done in February this year. The certificate is attached in the Report which was concluded in April. Therefore, I assure Members that security is very important. There are some things we are not going to say here for security reasons but there are reasons why Narok was found to be the ideal position. I do not want to say in public but I said when I was moving the Report. Narok, Lodwar and Mariakani are the areas that the Ministry of Defence has identified for purposes of installing radars if they get funding from this House. Of course, they have reasons. This is radar. It is just the Safaricom booster. I was telling one Member, at times when we invite Safaricom or Airtel to put those masts or boosters, you may want them to put it in this location, but when they go on the ground, they say the coordinates for signals is not there. It is the same case with the radars of Kenya Air Force. We may want a certain location, but when they do their own technical setup, the coordinates may not add up. It moves to another place. That is why they identified this parcel as the best to put the mast we are calling radar and then they will be able to monitor our airspace. If you give them money in the subsequent financial years, they will do the same in Lodwar and Mariakani and then the airspace of the country will be well monitored. I plead with this House to approve the 876 acres. That is what the Report is saying. If they want the rest, they must seek parliamentary approval. They must do due diligence to ensure that the ownership of the land is not disputed. However, at least for this parcel, it is not disputed. I beg to reply, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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