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    "id": 1186478,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Turkana East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Nicholas Ng’ikor",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion. Trees are very essential to our daily lives. We can list so many benefits of trees like preventing soil erosion in areas where we have floods and wind breaking. In other areas, when we talk of planting trees along our roads, before we had those roads there were trees. Having built the roads, there is need for us to plant more trees to replace those which were cut to create space for the construction of those roads. It is not something that we should take for granted. We should embrace the philosophy that says, “If you cut a tree, you must plant two.” Trees also benefit our communities by providing food in the case of fruits and honey. Trees can house bees and their flowers can provide honey to human beings. Hon. Temporary Speaker, allow me to also say something about the NG-CDF) because I was to comment on it but I did not get a chance. There are people who loiter on the corridors of the Judiciary on a daily basis regarding the issue of NG-CDF believing that they are fighting Members of Parliament, forgetting that they are actually fighting Kenyans. I urge such people to fight their area MPs, if they are serious about political fights. Let them go to the ground and compete for those seats, but they should not fight the NG-CDF. This fund is for the benefit of the common mwananchi, and not for MPs. The only thing we have are the positions we have been elected by our constituents to occupy. They can only compete for those seats instead of doing harm to Kenyans, as they have done. As we speak, school-going children in my constituency are at home. Let us say those who are in Form One now are at home. We are going The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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