The government, through the Ministry of Environment, has withdrawn a set of regulations gazetted in April that sought to, among other things, realign the country's approval processes for environmental oversight after public uproar.
While appearing before the Senate Committee on Delegated Legislation on Monday, July 28, the Environment Principal Secretary (PS) Festus Ng'eno announced that the Ministry had taken the step to withdraw the regulations after widespread consultations.
Public participation for Legal Notice No. 71 Environmental Management and Coordination (Strategic and Integrated Environmental Assessments and Environmental Audits) Regulations, 2025 will now resume. "We have resolved to withdraw the Legal Notice No. 71 of 2025 after we realised that we were heading nowhere.
We have done that to allow more consultations and involvement of all the stakeholders," PS Ng'eno told the committee.
