Outgoing Uasin Gishu County Assembly Speaker Isaac Terer. [Photo|hivisasa.com]
Uasin Gishu might be the first county in the country to have a legislation banning use of plastic bags alongside the national government's legal notice that takes effect Monday.
According to the outgoing county Assembly Speaker Isaac Terer, there's already a Bill before the assembly that if passed would would among other things ban use of plastic bags.
Terer said the bill was at the public participation stage before the Assembly was adjourned for the general elections.
"It was a confidence that when the legal notice banning use of plastic bags was being issued, our assembly had already started its own process of establishing legislations regulating use of the bags under the Public Health and Environment act," Terer said in Eldoret, Thursday.
"When the bill was taken through public participation, there were contrasting views from residents but majority were in its support," he added.
Once the newly elected Members of County Assembly are sworn in and Assembly sessions begin, its expected the bill will be tabled for discussions before its passed into county laws.
If passed, the laws would enhance legal notice No. 2356 of 2017 banning manufacture and importation of the plastic bags for commercial and household packaging.