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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have misused our land. We have now reached a stage where it is necessary to educate our people that they should not plough on hill tops, and this has been said by one of my colleagues. They should not cultivate near rivers and in swampy areas. By so doing, we are destroying the biodiversity that is so crucial in our environment. You cannot wake up one day, go to a forest and start cutting down trees. Right now, all our rivers are muddy, and the reason is that we have cleared our hilltops and forests. We have allowed the flow of the soil from these steep areas on our mountains and forests and all we are getting is siltation in our rivers and lakes. It is high time we had a policy of reafforestation. When we were in Bomas of Kenya, the issue was that every Kenyan owning a piece of land must put 10 per cent of it under forest cover. This was opposed. I still stand to support this idea, that every Kenyan who owns a piece of land must ensure that 10 per cent of it is forested. Forests are important to the environment and will bring income to our people. So, we should encourage all the institutions to plant trees."
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