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    "id": 1161855,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kang’ata",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1826,
        "legal_name": "Irungu Kang'ata",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, even if we have signed those declarations, under the law of Treaties Act, for all those conventions to have the force of law, they have to be brought before the National Assembly for ratification. That is provided for under Article 2(6) of the Constitution. If I was a Member of the National Assembly, personally, I would have put a reservation to the ratification of those international treaties which would make us, as a country, not to be able to create employment. When you close a factory that is creating millions of jobs to the young people on the basis of environment and you have not provided an alternative mechanism through which those young people are going to find employment, I believe you are doing disservice to this Republic of Kenya. The western world, the Chinese and Japanese followed a certain trajectory which they developed. Then you are told not to follow this path, it is destructive. I agree, it is a very destructive path but what is the compensation mechanism? I strongly believe it is for the Europeans and the Americans to give us a package to support our climate endeavor. That is my view, my thesis. I agree, the climate is changing but, it has been caused by the Europeans. If they do not want us to follow the path they created, then they need to compensate us. Otherwise, we have to open and establish coal plants and continue having factories. In fact, there is an international principle, an environmental law called polluters pay. So, it is them to pay us so that we do not establish those so-called polluting factories. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is also something called carbon trading. The idea that was established in the international forum was that poor countries like ours were going to be paid some money, particularly when they plant things like trees to give them incentives not to follow the industrial path that was used by the European to develop. That carbon trading mechanism does not function. We do not obtain anything out of that mechanism."
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