Richard Moitalel ole Kenta

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• 11 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Parliament is not there, then the next Parliament shall continue ensuring that this issue is addressed and that LDK should not relapse in doing its job. view
• 11 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: In addressing the above recommendation, NEMA shall, with consultation with all relevant stakeholders, identify additional affluent sampling points outside LDK premises. Also, NEMA should continuously monitor and carry out periodic audits and compliance assistance programmes to address the issue of environmental pollution in all industrial and mixed-zones in Kenya. This is to ensure that industries comply with the Environmental Management and Coordination Act 1999 and other regulations and submit annual reports to the National Assembly. This is a very important issue because, if NEMA does not continuously access information on how factories are working, then we are facing a catastrophe ... view
• 11 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, further to the administrative issue, we went further to look at the policy and legislative recommendations which were brought forward. As I already hinted, the National Assembly Departmental Committee on Lands, in consultation with the relevant stakeholders, should put in place a policy and legislative framework to mitigate the obscured mixed land-use conflicts and promote sustainable development for the future. This is a very important issue. The area we are talking about was supposed to be an industrial zone. However, it seems that the Machakos Municipal Council had indicated that the land can be used for ... view
• 11 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Let the Departmental Committee on Lands liaise with the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning and the County Government of Machakos to ensure that there is adequate consultation on the zoning. We have also said that the Government, through the National Treasury, should reinstate the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) fees to help NEMA sustain operations, regular and random inspections, monitoring, equipping laboratories and building capacity. I was made to understand that the fee was re-introduced because originally, NEMA was paid fees commensurate to the cost of the projects. However, someone misadvised the Government that there was no need for that ... view
• 11 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: this one. Let the environment be clean and whoever who wants to pollute it must ensure they clean up and this way we can proceed. I will also give my colleagues the opportunity to contribute because they are here. I beg to move and urge the House to adopt this Report. I now request Hon. Osotsi to second. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 11 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: I would like to tell the Members that before they throw aspersions, they should read the Report. This Report came to us. The Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources had given recommendations and The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 11 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: given these people time to improve on the pollution aspect, which they did. The last meeting where there was a subcommittee involved... view
• 11 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: He is trying to mislead Kenyans. If you read the Report, you will find that the last visit involved Ederman who was the complainant, NEMA, LDK and everybody else. The input was from everybody. We cannot then say the Committee has failed anybody because things are the way they are now. You better read the Report before you cast aspersions on the Committee or Parliament. view
• 11 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Before I reply, I want to thank the Members who have contributed. Hon. Members, I have heard you. I have listened to you and I can tell you that we did the best we could. We did the best we could because we had a lot of challenges. We even had blackmail and all that. However, I think I will address the Hon. Member who has just spoken. At no place have we referred this thing back to the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources. We are just talking about the deliberations that ... view
• 11 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Somebody has said we have left this matter open-ended. If you read Recommendation No. 2, we are very clear that NEMA shall submit a Satisfactory Compliance Report to the National Assembly after 60 days upon adoption of this Report by the House. So, if you adopt it today within 60 days there must be a Report. There is no open-ended issue here and the most important thing is, has anything been done. Yes, and it still needs to be done. As somebody said, the damage caused to people and the environment is irreversible and once it is done that is ... view