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    "id": 1186481,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kirinyaga Central, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Gitari",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I want to congratulate my brother, Hon. K.J for bringing this timely Motion. As you are aware, the Kenya Kwanza Government has a forum to plant five billion trees and this will be part of it. We have young people who are unemployed and instead of using them to clean up in the Kazi kwa Vijana Programme, they can be used by these contractors to plant these trees. We have seen a cow being sold for as low as Ksh500 and a goat for Ksh100 because of drought. If we cover all our roads with trees when they are being constructed, we will have a chance to attract rainfall, and we might get out of such situations of drought. There is a debate on climate change at the moment. It is serious and we will only succeed if we plant trees on our road reserves. I am one of the people who does road designs and one of the biggest challenge that we face is encroachment along our roads. The Government acquired land for road construction but they did not survey it or were not keen on the markings of the end of road reserves. When trees are planted, they will assist in curbing this menace of road encroachment. If you drive in Kirinyaga Central, along Kirinyaga University College, you will see the beauty of having trees along the road. One time I had a chance to go to the home of the late second President’s home in Kabarak and I could see the beauty of trees along the road. We want to encourage my brother and tell him to follow it with a Bill so that it is actualised. On the same note, I want to end the debate. I was in a forum where we were informed that the National Government-Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) was locked out by the court yesterday and, therefore, we have to stand up for our issues. Hon. K.J, at the point where we are doing the Bill, we should include all roads: the ones covered by Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA), the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) and the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) even if we are doing murram roads so that we ensure we plant trees. I support."
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