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    "id": 1161857,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1161857/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kang’ata",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1826,
        "legal_name": "Irungu Kang'ata",
        "slug": "irungu-kangata"
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    "content": "It is therefore my strong view that we need to push the developed world to respect and enhance effectiveness of the carbon trading mechanism. I say that because I come from Murang’a County which has the largest portion of Aberdare Forest. Almost 80 per cent of Aberdare Forest is in Murang’a County. Eighty per cent of water that is drank in Nairobi comes from Murang’a County. We do not get even a single shilling out of it. There is something called abstraction fees. Abstraction fees means a company that is drawing water out of a natural resource, that money should be paid to a national Government entity called Water Resources Management Authority (WARMA) which does not plant those trees. I strongly believe that money should be coming to Murang’a County Government so that we replant trees and people in Nairobi continue drinking Murang’a water. Otherwise, we have no option but to not protect Aberdare Forest. We need an incentive. My thesis is this; whatever education that is going to be taught to our children as per the proposed Motion must include several issues: - (1) A critical appraisal of the current climate change policy. Let us not just adopt ideas we see on television, when the westerners call workshops in Nairobi or activists. No. They have not prosecuted the African case in this cause called climate change. We may, without knowing, be bringing burdens of development on African society. As a result of this endeavor we may continue being poor because we have been told we cannot establish a factory; it is going to create climate change. Those are burdens. If there is evidence that our factories cause climate change, we need to be paid off so that we do not establish them. Otherwise, we will bypass a certain industrial phase on the basis of wanting to protect the environment. It is the Europeans, the Americans, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Koreans who should be paying the Africans for the things they have caused in this world. They caused it, we are bearing the greatest burden and now we are being told to help them to curb it at a cost which is not being footed by those people who originally caused climate change. Therefore, I respect and understand my colleagues who hold a different view. However, I am only urging them to look at the---"
}