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    "id": 1161888,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13184,
        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "because of activism. These are issues our people are going through. The rangelands in Northern Kenya are not generating, even with the same amount of rainfall. We have 10 per cent forest cover. If we tell our children that 30 per cent forest cover is the difference, that is what we are talking about. I know Sen. Kang’ata talked about the coal plant that was shut down. It had not even begun. There is something called stranded assets. Why are we, as African, going into things that are already obsolete and deal with investments that will be obsolete in the next few months? These are investments that, perhaps, even the technology transfer needs to come from that West that has made it obsolete. We then get stuck and stranded with assets in the name of creating coal plants around Africa. Africa is endowed with the best renewable energy of the sun, wind and the water. All we are saying it, we do not have to follow the same trajectory as the West. As Africans, why do we not decide that coal is not our thing? We have the sun that is scorching us. Let us harness and use that energy. Mr Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is not true that renewables are expensive. How can something so plentiful, be so expensive if we focused on using it? How can something so plentiful be so remote from us? It is shining on us. When the West gets the sun in certain places for two hours in a day, we get it for almost 24 hours everyday. In addition, we know when it rises and when it goes down. We can say that we may have lacked ideas, but we have not lacked the natural resources. Therefore, it is not true and that is what I would like to correct in this House. Natural resources that are of necessity are much more expensive. It is not true at all. We must also differentiate between the cause and effect of things. If the West caused it, the effect is on us. What shall we do to skill and arm ourselves with the mitigation measures that will give us the resilience to survive? Or, do we say because they cause it, we just lie down and die? Our animals will just die. Our pastoralists in Northern Kenya will say that mzungu caused it and, therefore, I will just let my animals die. No! We are going to bottom of why our rangelands are not regenerating? Why have the rainfall patterns changed? Why do I graze in these areas usually in July and this July there is nothing? We cannot just sit and apportion blame. We must be part of the solution. This is what this Motion is trying to do. It does not matter that Australia has many coal mines. That is Australia. What about our country? It is not true that the number one problem for Kenya is because we did not pursue fossil fuels; or that we are putting some climate education into our curriculum. We know our number one problem is corruption. Let us deal with these things. Let us deal with the pilferage of Kshs2 billion daily or monthly. I do not remember the exact timeframe that was put, but this is a lot of money. Let us not apportion blame where none exists at all. Mr Temporary Speaker, Sir, I congratulate the pastor who said that we will do away with molio . It is through these kinds of things that we will do away with food donations and get the dignity of feeding our children and ourselves because we are action against the climate that is causing us problems. Be it drought or disasters of that nature."
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